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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 



LIFE AND CIIAUACTER 



DUDLEY C. HASKELL 

(A REPKESKNTATIVE FROM KAN.SAS), 



DBLIVEKKlJ IN TH 



HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND IN THE SENATE, 
FOKTY-EKJIITII CONOKES.S, FIRST SESSION. 



PUliMSIIEl) BY ORDER OF CONORKSS. 



WASHINGTON: 
CIO vi;i(NMi:nt imunting oifick. 

1884. 

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JOINT EESOLUTION fur the jirinliiiK of lortiiiii c-uk.gies deliveieil iu CcmKnw» upon tlie 
hitu Dudley 0. Haskell. 

Ji'csiilvcd by the Senate <iii<l Jloiisc of Representatives of the Unitett Staten of Amerk-a 
in Coiii/ress ar.semblcd, Thiit there be jirinted of the eulogies delivered in Con- 
gress upon the late Dudley C. Haskell, a Representative elect to the Forty- 
eif^hth Congress from the State of Kansas, twelve thousand five hundred 
copies, of which three thousand shall be for the use of the Senate and nine 
thousand five hundred for the use of the House of Representatives. Alid the 
Secretary of the Treasury be, and hi! is hereby, directed to have printed a por- 
trait of the said Dudley C. Haskell to accompany said eulogies, and for the 
purpose of engraving or printing said portrait the sum of five hundred dollars, 
or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby apjiroiiriated out of any 
moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 

Approved March 13, 1884. 



ANNOUNCEMENT 

Ol' THE 

Death of Dudley C. Haskell 

(a kepresentative from kansasl. 

In the Housk of Representatives, 

Decembei- 17, 1883. 

Mr. AxDEKsox. Mr. Speaker, it is with great sorrow I perform 
the sad duty ot'annoiinciiig to tlie House the death of luy lauieuted 
t'olleague, Hon. Dudley C. Haskele, late a Representative from 
tiie State of Kansas, who died at his residence in this city on yes- 
terday morning, the Kith instant, at twenty-eight minutes past 4 
o'l^lock. 

With the earliest tints of that sacred day which typifies to the 
Christian the resurrection of the dead, his spirit was severed from 
tiic jurisdiction of this Congress of the United States of America, 
and joineil that sublime general assciulily of, representatives from 
all nations, continents, and centuries. As the bahe sleeps, so he 
slept out of lifft-and awoke in tiiat immortality given and vouch- 
safed by our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Mr. Haskell served through the last three Congresses with 
ever increasing ability, fidelity, and efficiency. Had he been spared 
to occupy this seat, now draped with the emblems of mourning, 
but brightened with the flowers of the Christian's hope, he would 
have taken high and deserved rank in the Forty-eighth Congress. 

Of his never (piestioned purity <jf life and force of character, of 
his ripe legislative experience and broad statesmanship, this is not 
the time to speak. On some future day the House will be asked 
to suspend its ordinary proceedings and pay fitting tribute of re- 
spect to the memory of one whose words and deeds have become an 
inseparable part of its history. 

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4 LrFi^ ^^ND CHARACTER OF DUDLEY C. HASKELL. 

And now, in behalf of my colleagues, and expressing the unani- 
mous wish of that constituency which so long, so ably, and so earn- 
estly Mr. Haskell has represented, and which loved him so well, 
I ask for the action of the House upon the resolutions wliich I send 
to the Clerk's desk. 

The Clerk read as follows : 

Resolved, Tliat the House has hoard with piofoiind sorrow the aunouncemeiit 
of the death of Hon. Dudley C. Haskell, late a Eoprcseutative from the 
State of Kansas. 
Resolved, That the Clerk comiiinnicati- these iiroceedings to the Senate. 

Resolved, That, as a token of res]i(tt to the memory of the deceased, the 
House do now adjourn. 

The resolutions were adopted unanimously. 

Before announcing the result, the Speaker appointed tiie follow- 
ing as members of the committee to escort the remains of Mr. 
Haskell to his place of residence: Mr. Russell, of Massachusetts; 
Mr. Kasson, of Iowa; Mr. Browne, of Indiana; Mr. Ryan, of 
Kansas ; Mr. Le Fevre, of Ohio ; Mr. Barnes, of Missouri ; Mr. 
Hanljack, of Kansas, ancl Mr. Graves, of Missouri. 

Then, in accordance with the vote on the above resolutions (at 
12 o'clock and 15 minutes p. m.), the House adjourned until 
Wednesday next. 



In TJii': Senate of the United States. 

December 17,1883. 

A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Clark, 
its Clerk, communicated to the Senate the intelligence of the 
death of Hon. Dudley C. Haskell, late a member of the House 
from the State of Kansas, and transmitted the resolutions of the 
House thereon. 

The Pkisident jwo tempore. The Chair feels it to be a duty, 
according to previous custom, to lay before the Senate tlie resolu- 
tions just received from the House of Representatives. The reso- 
lutions will be read. 

The resolutions wei'e read as follows : 



PROCEEDISGS IX THE SEX ATE. 5 

Hesolvrd, That the Iloiise has heard with iirofonnd SDiron' tlii' aiuuinuoc- 
uiiMit of the death of Hon. Dudley C. Haskell, late a Representative froiu 
the State of Kansas. 

liesolvcd, That the Clerk communicate these proceedings to the SiMiati". 

liesolred, That, as a token of respect to the memory of the deeeasi'd, the 
House do now adjourn. 

Mr. IxoALLS. Advised yesterday while in MassaciiiLsetts, hy 
telegrapli, of the untimely, thougli not wholly- unexpeetcd, death 
of my colleague in the House of Representatives, I hastened to 
Washington and have just arrived, to learn that the sad j)roees- 
sion bearing his remains to his home has already departed. 

This is not the time to recount his many virtues, nor to rehearse 
the services which he ha.s rendered tiie Re})ui)lic. Suffice it now 
to say that in his death the House has lost a most efficient mem- 
ber, the nation ha.s been deprived of the services of an eminent 
statesman, his State mourns a distinguished and honored public 
servant, while I, Mr. President, suffer in his departure a personal 
bereavement that is irreparable. 

In accordance with the usual observance upon such melanchoiv 
occasions, I move that the Senate do now adjourn. 

The President pro tempore. The Chair will ask the Senator 
from Kansas whether he desires that a committee of Senators shall 
be named to attend the funeral, as the cu.^om has been, and whicli 
was arranged for by his colleague [Mr. Plumb] ? 

Mr. Ingalls. I was not aware, in consequence of niv vcr\' re- 
cent arrival, that that action had not already been taken. \( it 
has not, I woidd suggest that a committee of three Senat(jrs l)e 
designated by the Chair for that purpose. 

The PuESiDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Kansas asks 
that the Chair designate a committee of three Senators to attend 
the obsequies of the late member of the House of Representatives 
from Kansas. Is there objection? The Chair hears none. The 
Chair will name the Senator from Kansas [Mr. Plumb], the Sen- 
ator from Missouri [Mr. Cockrell], and the Senator from Massa- 
achusetts [Mr. Dawes]. The Senator from Kauisas [Mr. Ingalls] 
moves that the Senate do now adjourn. 

The motion was agreed to; and (at 12 o'clock and 35 minutes 
p. m.) the Senate adjourned. 



LIFK AND CHARACTER OF JJUDLEY C. HASKELL. 



In the House of Eepresentatives, 

February 28, 1884. 
The iSi'KAKKit. 'riu' Clci'k will i-cad the .special order for tliis 
hour. 

The Clerk reail as I'ollows : 

Ordered, That Tbiiisdiiy, February 28, at 2 o'clock p. m., l)e fixed as tlie time 
for delivering tributes to the iiiemory of the late Dudley C. Haskell, late a 
Representative from the Staie of Kansas. 

Mr. Ryan. Mr. Speaker, this lieinj;; the hour fixed liy speeial 
order by the House to pay approjiriate tribute to the memory of 
the late Hon. Dudley C. Haskei,l, a Re])resentative-elect to this 
Congress from the second Congressional district of Kansas, I offer 
the following resolutions : 

The Clerk read as follows : 

Resolved, That the ordinary business of tlie House belaid aside in ordi-r (liat 
.appropriate tribute may l)e paid to the uurinory of DuDLEV C. IIaskki.i., late 
a Representative from the State of Kansas. 

Rennlred, That in the untimely death of Mr. Haskell the House has lost a 
conspicuous and faithful m(^mb('r, his constituents a zealous .and capable serv- 
ant, and the country a citizen of exemplary life, patriotic devotion, .and rare 
promise. 

Reeolred, That as an addi^ona.I mark of respect for his memory and sorrow 
for liis loss, theHou.se, at the conclusion oftliese ceremonies, shall adjourn. 

/i'(M)/rerf, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate. 

After addresses by Mr. Ryan, Mr. Kelley, Mr. Tucker, Mr. 
Keifer, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Rice, Mr. Ru.ssell, Mr. Burnes, Mr. 
Browne of Indiana, Mr. llelford, INIr. Ilanback, Mr. I'eftilione, and 
Mr Perkins, 

The Speaker. The (jnestion is on the adoption of the resolu- 
tions. 

The resolutions were nnanimcmsly ado|)ted, and accDrdintily tlie 
Hou.se adjourned. 



rnocEEitixas in the senate. 7 

Ix THE Senate of the United States, 

March 3, 1884. 

^^^. JiiHX P). (_'i,AUic,..rr., the Clerk of the House of Represent- 
atives, appeared at the bar nf the Senate and said : Mr. President, 
tlie House of Representatives lias passed a series of resohitions as 
an appropriate tribute to tlie memory of Dudley C. Haskem,, 
hite a Representative from tlic State of Kansas ; which I am dire('t<'(l 
to communicate to tlie Senate. 

The President ///•'; tciiijton: The Chair, as is usual in such 
crises, asks unanimous consent to lay before the Senate the resolu- 
tions from the House of Repre-entatives. If there be no objection 
the resolutions will be read. 

The Chief Clerk road the resolutions, as follows: 

HmoJi-ed, That the ordinary Imsiiu-ss of the House be laid aside in order that 
apimipriate tril)nte may be jiaid to the niemory of Dudley C. Haskell, late 
a Kepresentative from tlie State of Ivansas. 

lU-KoJved, That in tlie untimely dealli of Mr. Haskk'Cl the House has lost a 
eonspicnons and faithful nu'inlier, his c(uistitiien(s .a zealous and capable serv- 
ant, and the eountry a eitizeu of exemplary life, patriotic devotion, and rare 
promise. 

Refiolved, That as an additional mark of respect to tiisnaeniory and sorrow for 
his loss, the House, at the conclusion of these ceremonies, shall adjourn. 

HeaoJred, That the Clerk conuiiunieate these resolutions to the Senate. 

Mr. Plumb. Mr. President, I ofli'r the following resolutions: 

Itesolred, That the Sen.ite has received with profound sorrow the anuouuce- 
ment of the death of Hon. DuiiLKY C. Haskell, late a member of the House 
of Re|)resentative8 from the State of Kausas. 

Resohed, That the l>usine8S of the Senate bo now suspended that opportunity 
may be given for fitting tributes to the memory of the deceased and to his emi- 
nent public and private virtues, and that as a further uiark of res])i<t the 
.Senate, at the conclusioii of such remarks, .shall adjourn. 

After addresses by :\[r. Inoalls, Mr. Dawes, :\Ir. Cockrell, Mr. 
Morrill, and ]Mr. Pliiinb, 

Mr. Plumis. yiv. I'rcsidi'iit, 1 ask for the adoption oi' the res- 
olutions. 

The President pio tempore The question is on agreeing to the 
resolutions proposed by the Senator from Kansas [Mr. Plumb]. 

The resolutions wi're agreed to; and accordingly the Senate 
adjourned. 



ADDRESSES 

ON THE 

Death of Dudley C. Haskell 

(A EEPRESENTATIVE FROM KANSAS). 



VELIVEIiED IX THE SEXATE JXD IIOl SE OF EEPRESEXTATIVES. 



Address of Mr. Ryan, of Kansas. 

Mr. Speaker : I enter upon this satrdnty witli a sorrow made 
poignant by the memory of years of uninterrupted friend.ship. 

Dudley C. Haskell was my associate and colleiigue iu Con- 
gress from 1876 to the date of liis death. We entered upon Con- 
gressional life at the same time. Our relations were always cordial, 
and were never interrupted by ha.sty word or unpleasant incident. 
We conferred concerning our pergonal interests and public duties 
with the fullest confidence and without reserve. His sympathy 
and aid in the discharge of tiie trusts assigned mc I could always 
connnand. 

My friend and colleague is no more! After a long and heroic 
struggle again.st resi.stless di.sease, he died at his rooms in this city 
about half past 4 o'clock of the Sabbath morning, the 10th day of 
December last. 

Mr. Haskell was born at Springfield, Vt., March 23, 1842, 
and was, as will be seen, .still a young man wiien cut down. He 
was the son of Franklin Haskell and Almira Chase. His father's 
family is traditionally traceable to Saxony. They eame to America 
from Scotland, and were among the first wiio settled in tiie historic 
town of Salem, Mass. Subsequent settlements were made by some 



]0 Lll'K AND CHARACTEB OF DVDLET C. HASKEI.L. 

»/' tlicin ii) Connecticut and Vermont. His mother belonged to an 
old and numerous New England family of that name, some of 
wliuin attained to considerable distinction. His parents moved to 
Massachusetts when he was but two years old, where they con- 
tinued to reside until September, 1854, when his fother went to 
Kansas, followed by his mother and himself the ensuing March. 
Tn ] 857 he went back to Sj>ringfield, Yt., where he attended school 
about a year, and then returned to his home and engaged in trade. 
Soon after, however, and at the early age of seventeen years, he 
was moved by the prevailing excitement resulting from gold dis- 
coveries in Colorado to go to " Pike's Peak," the name by which 
that attractive region was then generally but somewhat "vaguely 
known. Fickle fortune withholding her fiivor, he again sought 
his home in the fall of 1861, soon after the civil war had come to 
delug(' the land with the blood of kindred. He entered the mili- 
tary service a lad of but nineteen years, and his superior qualities 
did not long await recognition, for he was soon assigned to the im- 
portant position of superintendent of transportation of his division. 
Ill January, 1863, he retired from the military service, and in 
the following March entered school at East Hampton, Mass. Re- 
maining there for a time, he was admitted to Yale Collcuc, and 
took a special scientific course. 

In November, 1 865, he married Miss Harriet M. Kelsey, of I5erk- 
sliire County, Massachusetts, a lady of culture and refinement, to 
whose beauty of character, untiring de\dtion, patient courage, high 
order of intellect, and splendid mental eipiipment Mr. Haskell 
was largely indebted for his subsequent brilliant success. 

Immediately after his marriage he returned with his young bride 
to his Kansas home, in the city of liawrence, where he engaged in 
raercautile pursuits, in which he continued with indifferent success 
until 1876. He entered political life, however, in 1871, when he 
was elected to the lower house of the Kausas legislature. At that 
tune it was not his purpose to i-emaiu in public life, but rather to 
enter the |)rofession of the law, a field of service for which he was 
exceptionally well fitted by his remarkable perceptive powers, ana- 
lytic faculties, terseness and cogency of logic, and perspicuity and 



ADDMESS OF MU. RTAX, OF KANSAS. 11 

affliienco of diction. Subsequent events diverted iiini from this ]nir- 
pose and gave his remaining years to the business of legishition. In 
1873 he was again elected to tlie State legislature, and still again in 
1875, when he was chosen speaker of the house. As member and 
speaker he gave evidence of abilities and developed an aptitude for 
legislative duties that suggested his candidacy for Congress, and in 
187() he was elected to the lower House of the Forty -fifth Congress, 
and was successively chosen to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and 
Forty-eighth Congresses. 

When Mr. Haskell entered the Forty-fif"th Congress manyim- 
]iortant interests of his district were greatly in need of legislative 
relief. To this work he at once applied himself with such diligence 
that before he had completed his second term ample legislation fiir 
that purpose had been secured. He was vigilant and active re- 
specting all matters of interest to Kansas, and there is little of Fed- 
eral legislation aflecting her development n])oii whicli he lias not 
left his impress. 

He was fond of his constituents and pi-oud of his State. In con- 
versation he delighted to dwell upon the early struggles and tri- 
umphs of the young Commonwealth. He indulged a just ])i'ide in 
having borne a part in all lier vicissitudes. When but a lad of 
thirteen years he participated in the contests and shared in I he pri- 
vations of the period. Fresh from his New England home, imbued 
with a love of freedom and jjrompted by the zeal inspired by the 
passions of the time, he siiouldereil Iiis rifle and with his coniniaiid 
marched forth to battle for human lii)erty. 

Mr. Haskell was gifted with a splendid physique, being con- 
siderably over six feet high and symmeti-ically proportioned. His 
l)odilv strength was great, and he was jiassionately fond of nihletic 
sports. 

In thouirht, speech, and action he was vigorous and aggressive. 
It seemed impossible for him to be lukewarm or apathetic in the 
perfornuuice of any task or the <iiseharge of any duty. Though it 
wei-e but a friendly office in one of the Departments of the Govern- 
ment for some humble constituent, lie nndertook it with cheerful 
alaci'itv. If the recognition of the presiding officer were sought, it 



12 LIFE AM) CHARACTER OF DUDLEY C. JfASKELL. 

was with tone so cominauding auci vif;;(ir (if purpose so evident, tiiat 
the Chair found it easier to respect thau to ignore. Whetiier 
debating a question of order or discussing a great public measure, 
he summoned all the resources of body and mind, and directed 
tiiem against tiie position of his adversary with an energy tliat 
must iiave put his nerve power to serious test and materially im- 
paired his vital forces. 

Mr. H.vsKF.1,1. was a diligent student, especially of history and 
political economy. With the entire history of his own country 
and its legislation he made himself as thorouglily familiar as 
though he had lived through it and borne a part in it. 

For the legislative arena he was in all respects splendidly 
equipped. To every duty assigned him he brought the most 
thorougli preparation. TTe made iiimself master of every prin- 
ciple, every detail, and every accessible fact pertaining to the sub- 
ject. Just in his purpose, with preparation never inadequate, with 
a sagacity that always chose the strongest position, and a courage 
that was invincible, he proved himself on this floor to be a " foe- 
man worthy of the steel" of the ablest and the most undaunted. 
It was only after the fullest investigation and the most careful de- 
lil)eration that he reached important conclusions, and then he was 
as unyielding in his convictions as he was zealous in their defense. 
Though often impetuous, ardent, and nervously energetic in what 
he undertook, he was yet cool, prudent, wise, and 'sagacious in 
counsel. He was 

A coinbin.'ition anil a form, indeed, 
Where every god did seem to set bis seal, 
To give the world assurauce of a man. 

There were two great subjects to which my late colleague gave 
exhaustive study and {)ro found thouglit — -polygamy in the Territo- 
ries and the system of protection to American industry. 

He regarded polygamy not merely as a crime against society, 
defiling and perverting those family relations and home ties which 
are the very flower of our civilization, but as an organized and de- 
fiant enemy of our Government and its institutions. Thus believ- 
ing, he determined to attack it with all the legislative powers that 



ADDRESS OF MR. RYAN, OF KANSAS. 13 

it wat^ prai'ticahle to invoke forits destniction. When tlie Fortv- 
.seventli Congre-ss met he moved again;-t it promptly, planting liim- 
self upon tiie broad proposition tiiat to send to this body a polyga- 
mous representative of that great erime was an offeuse against the 
bouor and dignity of the House of Representatives. After a mem- 
orable struggle lie was sustained and the Delegate-elect refused a 
seat. He subsequently championed tlie bill for the suppression of 
polygamy in the Territories, and pursued it with marked parlia- 
mentary skill and energy to a successful issue. 

But it was the subject of tariff revision which so largely engagetl 
tlie attention of the House at the closing session of the last Con- 
gress that Ijrought into active exercise his rarest talent for debate 
and his consummate skill in the application of parliamentary law. 
It was that notable parliamentary struggle that brought him con- 
si)icuously before the country as one of the ablest expounders and 
strongest advocates of that great economic system. To this sub- 
ject he doubtless devoted profounder study and more thorough 
investigation than to any other that had ever challenged his atten- 
tion. He represented an agricultural people, and the great prob- 
lem presented for his solution was the effect and influence of the 
system of protection upon the chief industry of his own people. 
To this cud he traversed the domains of history, science, philoso- 
phy, and ])recedent, and it was the light thus gained that made 
his pathway clear and determined his purpose beyond fear or 
cavil. Those present who were members of the last Congress 
need not be reminded with what force of logic, comprehensiveness 
of information, and patient mastery of details he supported his 
matured convictions on this floor. Nor can it be doubted that 
the intense mental strain, long continued, and the excessive labor 
which characterized the part he bore in that memorable contest 
sapped his vital forces, destroyed his capacity for natural and 
healthful repose, and left him an easy prey to insidious and fatal 
disease. 

Dudley C. Haskell's private life was without a stain. From 
boyhood his was a career of religious fervor. His faith was im- 
jilicit and sublime. He knew his God as surely as he knew the 



14 LIFE AND CHASACmi! OF DrDf.FY C. HASKELL. 

tranquil beauty of the stars or (lie jnci-idiaii splendor of tlie sun. 
No lingering doubt disturlx'd bis bcHcf in lb<' diviiiitv of Jesus 
Christ and a future state of eternal bliss. 1\, bini death was the 
gateway to an eternity of purity, serenity, and joy. The work of 
the ehurcb and tiie Sabbath school was to him a labor of love. So 
high and pure were the order and .|nality of bis character that he 
was an easy master of every temptation. 

His home was to him the (,n<' spot (,n eai'tli of supreme IMieity, 
typical of that higher home and more numerous family to which 
he has been summoned. His great heart was entirely consecrated 
to bis family. His affection for wife and .bildren was as sweet 
and pure as a mother's kiss. His was the b,mie ,)f peace, confi- 
dence, and contentment. No vision of glory coid.l dim the luster 
of his fireside, no ambition dull the calm delights of his hearth- 
stone. It was the abiding place of all the dom.-stie virtues. 
Chief and empress of them all reigne<l Love, around whose 
throne shone the mellow light of Christian charitv 

The spot wlieic angels Mud ;i restiiij; |,I,H-e 
When, be.ariiig lih'ssiiif's, tliey (Icscciid to c.iitli. 

Mr. Hasicell was a steadily and even a rapidly growing man. 
Each succeeding effort surpassed the last. In him >vere possibili- 
ties that pointed to the best and proudest results of statesmanship. 
He relied upon hard work rather than upon genius. His defini- 
tion of ability was intelligent industry. He regarded genius and 
talent as infant energies that could only be developed into robust 
manhood by the severest toil. 

His early death must be considered a national calamity. The 
great principles he so ardently espoused and s(, powerfidly main- 
tained have sustained a grievous loss. Tiie vigorous and stal- 
wart young State he in part represented with so nuich honor and 
fidelity bows under the burden of her great bei-cavcment. Just, 
genial, honorable, and artless, he has gone to his rewtird. 

His life was gentle : anil tlie elements 

So mixed in him that n;itnio niight .stand up 

And Siiy to all the world—" This is a man!" 



JDDIIESS OF MU. KELLEY, OF PEXXSYLVANIA. 15 

I seem to see now iu faiuy my ileparted friend on that far shore, 
liis once soaring spirit in jjoacefnl repose at last, basking iu the 
glad snidight of an etei'iial morning. From that infinite height 

■ may wo not fancy iiiin ( ipi'ciu'iiding in the vast sweep of his 

perfected vision the places, c\ciits, and interests that attracted his 
thoughts and engaged his energies in life'.' So shall he look down 
njjon a grateful conntry, her reverent millions paying the tribute 
of tears to one who served their interests faithfully, whose devotion 
to the cause of social regeneration and whose championship of the 
rights and dignity of American labor challenged their sincere ad- 
miration. In the van of them all will he behold the sorrowing 
hosts of his own State, watering his grave with tears and bedeck- 
ing it with lily and immortelle. When these flowers fiule and their 
fragrance perishes, surviving affection will rear a sculptured column 
al)ove his dust, and the enduring marble itself shall cnunbic and 
decay ere his name and fame fade from recollection. 



Address of Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania. 

Mr. Speakek : The premature death of so enlightened aud cour- 
ageous a legislator as Hon. Dudeey C. Haskell was an event 
to be solemnly commemorated. It was more than a bereavement 
to his family and friends. It was a national calamity. 

When, at the close of the Forty-seventh Congress, on the 4th of 
March last, I parted from him it was with a feeling of affectionate 
gratitude for the generous manner iu which he had assumed in the 
Committee on Ways aud Means and iu the conduct of the business 
of the committee on the floor of the House duties which belonged 
to me, but for the energetic performance of which a hideous disease 
was day by day disqualifying me. I felt that after years of pleas- 
ant and, to me, instructive association, our pathways now finally 
diverged; that he, with his giant frame, his active aud cultivated 
intellect, his indomitable energy and simple habits of life, went 
forth to long years of usefulness while I should seek the repose and 
endearment of home with an abiding apprehension that my tenure 
of life would not endure until Congress should reassemble. 



IG rJI'E AXD CHARACTER OF DUDLEY C. HASKELL. 

Let IK; iiiaii ;ittem|)t to f'ort'ti.'ll tin; mystorioiis issues ot'lilo and 
death, for it is true uu\v as it was before the flood tliat of two in a 
field or two griiidiiifr at a mill, one shall be taken and tiie other 
left. In this case the vigorous youtli has gone and the diseasefl 
old man, restored to iiealth, lives to mourn the loss of his gifted 
and young colaborer. 

Mr. Haskell's life was one of ceaseless activity. Conscious of 
the power with whicii lie was endowed, he regarded it as a trust 
held in use for others, and tiiough his form was that of Hcrcuies 
his mental energy and indomitable will exhausted it at so early an 
age as to justify us in asserting that death claimed him prematurely. 

Born in Vermont, he received his elementary education in his 
native town, Springfield, and emigrated with his mother to Law- 
rence, Kans., when but thirteen years old. In less than two 
years from his settlement in Lawrence he enrolled himself in 
what was known as Stubb's militia, and bore his part in the labors 
and perils of those turbulent days of border life as heroically as 
did the brawniest man in the corps. Released from military serv- 
ice, he returned to Springfield in 1857, entered the higli school, 
and remained as a pupil for sometiiing more than a year, when 
he returned to Lawrence and found employment in a commercial 
house. He enjoyed the excitement of extreme frontier life during 
tiie summers of 1859 and 1860 in Colorado, then known as Pike's 
Peak, and in 18G1 found an acceptable field of labor in the 
Quartermaster's Department of the Union Army, in whicli he 
rendered two years of faithful service. Notwithstanding his love 
of adventure it never quenched his yearning desire for knowledge, 
and, having obtained further preparatory education, he entered 
Yale College and passed about two years in a special scientific 
course of instruction and of commercial education. 

Having married Miss Keisey, of Berkshire, Mass., in Decem- 
ber, 1865, Mr. Haskell again returned to Lawrence and engaged 
in business. His was not, liowever, to be a life of quiet and 
domestic hajipiness, for which he was abundantly fitted, as was 
shown by the affectionate digrn'ty with which he ever treated his 
wife, and the tender affection he lavished upon his two little 



ADDBESS OF MI!. KELLEY, OF FENNSYLVAyiA. 17 

daughters. Hi' seems to have been predestined to legislative life. 
His representative career began in 1872 and was cut short by his 
demise in 1883. Meanwhile he had been elected three times con- 
secutively to the legislature of Kansas; and had in 1876 been 
spontaneously chosen speaker of the house of representatives. In 
the fall of that year he was chosen to represent the second district 
of the State in the Congress of the United States, to which body 
he was re-elected in 1878, 1880, and 1882. 

When first elected to Congress he was but thirty-four years of 
age. His district was large in territory, and his unusually numer- 
ous constituency increased with a rapidity possible only in the 
most fertile and accessible of our frontier States. It was a purely 
agricultural district, but the interests involved in this department 
of industry in connection with those growing out of Indian affairs, 
railroad operations, the settlement of immigrants under pre-emp- 
tion and homestead laws made demands upon him exacting enough 
to test the strength and patience of the most vigorous and devoted 
Representative; yet, while neglecting none of these interests, Mr. 
Haskell found time to study diligently and with appreciative 
interest the economic laws which promote the progresf! of nations 
in population, wealth, and intelligence. 

Looking beyond the district lie had been chosen to represent, 
and the magnificent young Commonwealth of which it was a jiart, 
he was ever ready to give carefid and conscientious consideration 
to the most minute interest of the citizens of any State which 
might be affected by proposed legislation. He had read the writ- 
ings of the masters of the British school of political economy, and 
his tenacious memory was charged with the language in which 
most of the specious fallacies they announce as self-evident truths 
had been expressed ; but his trenchant habits of investigating 
theories, by whomsoever propounded, had saved him from their 
intellectual domination and given to the doctrines of social science 
and national economy, as distinguished from political economy, a 
ca])able and courageous pro])agandist. 

He was fond of illustrating the absurdity of the accepted dog- 
mas of political economv by reference to one of the fundamental 
H. Mis. 46 ii 



18 /./i'Vi lyp ciiAn.irTKR of Dudley c. haskell. 

propositions of its most fjenerally accfipted teachers, Maltlius and 
Ricardo. 

The fiiii(hiiiii'iital assiiiiiptioii on wliieii tliese masters based 
mueli of theii system, and on tlie (•orrcetiiess of whicli thrv were 
accepted as the highest British autiiorities, was, that j^iiided by au 
unerring instinct of self-interest, men always settle first upon the 
richest lauds and when theseare occupied their successors are forced 
to spend their labor on inferior ami ever-inereasingl}' inferior lands, 
so that by this "inflexible law" the means of human sustenance 
would increase in but arithmetical progression while people to re- 
quire sustenance would increase geometrically. From this assump- 
tion, the falsity of which the early history of every country dis- 
plays, these accepted authorities had reached the conclusion that 
war, pestilence, and famine are beneficent agencies provided by a 
kind Providence to prevent mankind from passing through civili- 
zation into cannibalism as the I'esult of the overj)opulation of the 
earth. 

Mr. Haskkli/.s was a devoutly religious nature, and thouj^h he 
may not at first have been able to successfully disjnite the premises 
or overthrow the logic of Malthus and Ricardo he doubted their 
premises and shrunk from the impious conclusion that an all-pow- 
erful and beneficent God, in ordering His providence, had so adjusted 
it that the horrors of overpopulation nnist forever cloud the social 
atmosphere ; and that the sole agent for correcting this false ad- 
justment of means to ends provideil by the Almighty was the 
ghastly trinity of war, pestilence, and fiuninc. 

On the fertile prairies and slopes of Kansas young Haskell 
found nature's demonstration of the absurdity of this " dismal" 
assumption, and her refutation of the logic by which this impious 
assault on the goodness of God had been enforced. The proof 
Kansas furnished the seemingly sterile slopes and hills of Colorado 
corroborated. Observation taught him that neither individual im- 
migrants nor colonies ever settled first upon the best lands of the 
country into which they go as pioneers. These lands have ever 
been, as they now are, the bottom lands, which can not be ailapted 
to the uses of social life till population and capital have accumu- 



ADDRESS OF MR. EELLEY, OF rEXXSYLrAXIA. 19 

luted in force and power suffieient for their adequate drainage and 
the application of other costly prerequisites to healthful occupa- 
tiotT; primitive settlement always takes place on uplands, which 
natural drainage prepares for human occu]>ation. The study of the 
progress of the early settlement of the British Islands and of the 
topography of early British traffic and post-roads would have saved 
IMalthns and Ricardo from the amazing blunder of predicating 
their pretentions works on so glaring a fallacy. 

The discussion of the problems of national economy was a pas- 
sion with Mr. Haskeli, ; and yet he never carried with him on 
the stump a protectionist authority. His favorite book for cam- 
paign purposes was Bastiat's Boj)hisms of the Protectionists. His 
method was, so he told me, to read one or more of Bastiat's most 
plausible propositions, and then to proceed to refute them by appeals 
to the personal knowledge and experience of his auditors. Repre- 
senting an agricultural constituency and State, he believed devoutly 
in the maintenance of a protective tariff as the only effective means 
of developing all the resources of the country and of cementing its 
unity by that law which produces the most perfect harmony of inter- 
ests as the result of the widest possible diversity of pursuits ; and his 
intelligence and the zeal with which he sought to propagate his 
economic faith had persuaded me that there lay before him a career 
of national usefulness which ))ersonal aptitudes and the course of 
events open to but few men of a generation. 

Mr. Haskei-L, wMth his herculean frame, his deep voice, and his 
sometimes sternly Puritan visage, was a genial companion and in 
all the honorable strifes of public life a generous foe. \n inci- 
dent, which I may without impropriety mention, will serve to 
show the frankness and generosity of his nature. The time ap- 
proached for closing general debate on the tariff bill, which the 
Committee on Ways and Cleans had rejmrted to the House with a 
favorable recommendation. This honorable duty belonged to mc 
as chairman of the committee that had reported the bill ; but in 
view of the physical and nervous prostration from which I was suf- 
fering I shrunk from its performance, and would have gladly con- 
fided it to either Mr. Haskell or Major McKinley of Ohio, be- 



20 I'IFE AND CHARACTER OF DUDLEY C. HASKELL. 

tween whom and myself there was most perfect accord. But while 
I rejoiced in the fact that I had these two thoroughly instructed 
and trustworthy colleagues upon whom to devolve the duty, I could 
not determine to which the honor belonged, and submitted the 
question to the parties themselves for settlement. Upon what 
grounds it was determined I have never heard ; but it was agreed 
that INIr. Haskell should make the closing spcecii. 

Early on the 27th of January, 1883, Major McKinley submit- 
ted his views to the House and commanded an unusual measure of 
attention. Sound in argument and aptly illustrated by facts 
drawn from our past and current history and that of foreign manu- 
facturing nations, the speech exhibited his complete mastery of the 
great subject of economic science. As betook his seat members 
crowded about him to thank and congratulate him. Early among 
these was our friend Haskell; his tall figure towering above 
those who preceded him, and with his long arm outstretched above 
them toward the hero of the occasion, he said with much earnestness, 
''McKinley, I shall make the last speech in favor of the bill, but 
you have closed the debate, ami I thank you for your splendid 
effort." 

This generous incident was thoroughly characteristic of the man ; 
but he who would fully appreciate the generous impulse that 
prompted it should read tiie speech with which its author did, in 
less than two hours, proceed to close the debate. It abounded in 
facts, each statement of which was uttered as an illustration of 
well-considered doctrine; and though it contained no allusion to 
the impious doctrines of Malthus and his disciple Ricardo, it is in 
itself their specific refutation. One of its leading objects was to 
show that the agricultural States needed diversification of employ- 
ments; that the workshop and the factory should be located in the 
midst of diversified agriculture ; that farming communities which 
depended on distant markets for their productions were compelled 
to sell the vital elements of their soil and to thus diminish the 
rewards of their future labor; and that the establishment of manu- 
facturing and commercial centers in the midst of agricultural com- 
munities, by furnishing markets for green cro])s, spring vcgeta- 



jDDUiiss 01'' MI!. TicKEii, OF rinoixi.!. 21 

hies, lamb, veal, eggs, and otlier small products of" tlie fiinii, not 
only enhauced the value of land, hut increased its productive 
power by producing natural fertilizers, so that instead of increase 
of population tending to famine, in connection with good hus- 
bandry it tended to increase of production and more abundant 
means of subsistence. 

That speech was an illustration of the power and noble aim of 
Dudley C. Haskell, and should be distributed widely enougii 
to keep his memory green in every houiestead of the State he 
loved so well and in the service of whose people he sacrificed his 
life bv unresting toil that exhausted a young giant's vital forces. 



Address of Mr. Tucker, of Virginia. 

^fr. Speaker : When death stills forever the heart of its victim 
calumny and enmity stand silent, partisan and jjersonal aniniositv 
are hushed, and friendship and charity unite to weave garlands of 
amaranthine flowers for the new tomb, to commemorate the virtues 
and to signalize the immortality of the lamented dead. This House 
meets to-day to pay a merited tribute of honor and respect for our 
departed comrade, Hon. Dudley C. Haskell. 

I knew Mr. Haskell, not from personal intimacy, but from mv 
relations to his public .service in this House and upon the Com- 
mittee on Ways and ]\Ieans during the Forty-scventli Congre.ss. 
He was a native of Vermont, but in early life sougiit as his resi- 
dence tlie new State of Kansas, which came into the Union aflter 
unusual disturbances of its peace and order during its territorial 
life. Mr. Haskell was an earnest Republican, and no doubt par- 
took somewhat of the intense feelings which had marked the early 
history of Kansas; and these gave decided direction to his politi- 
cal opinions. He was a strong partisan, and yet kind and liberal 
in his jiersonal intercour.se with his political opponents. 

I found him on committee very diligent, practical, and earnest 
in all its labors. Decided in his convictions, he had the courage 
whictli they inspire in maintaining his opinions. He took a very 



22 IJI'E AND CHARACIKR OF DUDLliY C. HASKELL. 

pruiniiiciit part in tlie last Congress in the debates in committee 
and in the House upon the tariff question, and manifested great 
zeal and industry in the investigation of the faets, statistics, and 
principles which, in his view, should guide the policy of the (Jov- 
ernniet upon that very controverted question. 

Upon questions involving the rights and interests of his own 
people, including those of Indians inhabiting the State of Kansas, 
he was vigilant and untiring. He spoke always with great ear- 
nestness and with abilities which were practical, direct, and instruct- 
ive. He wa,s remarkable for great industry, and acquired with 
diligence all the information which in his judgment would reflect 
light upon the subject under discussion. 

In all my relations with him we were friends. Xo word or ac- 
tion on either part was ever designed, I am sure, to wound the feel- 
ings or to disturb these cordial sentiments ; and with this happy 
retrospect of our friendship I am glad on this occasion to pay this 
brief and imperfect tribute to the public and private integrity, to 
the patriotism and ability of an honored citizen, and to the pri- 
vate virtues of my departed friend. He has left an honorable 
public record, the character of an honest and uprigiit man, and the 
memory of private and domestic virtues wiiich will keep his mem- 
ory green in the hearts of the people of his State, of his personal 
friends, and, above all, of his bereaved and loving household. 



Address of Mr. Keifer, of Ohio. 

Mr. Speaker : By the death of Dudley C. Haskell the coun- 
try lost an eminent statesman and this House a valued member. 

It is proj^er that the ordinary course of legislation should stand 
still, and that we should pause in our own daily course to honor his 
memory, imbibe a lesson from his example in life, and take heed 
from his early death. 

Others will speak of his last hours. I will only attempt to bear 
testimony, in brief words, to his excellent life. 

Says a famed writer (Johnson) : " It matters not Jiow a man dies, 
but how lie lives." 



ADDIIESS OF MI}. KJilFEirOF OBIO. 23 

Mr. Ha.skell died ydiiiig and in tlie t'nll Ijldnni of" a nseful ])ub- 
lic life. Born Marcli 24, 1842, he died December 16, 1883, less 
than forty-two years of age. Thougli of New England parents and 
birth, he was at thirteen years of age upon tlie j)laius of Kansas, 
and in an essential sense engaged at tlie beginning of the long and 
bloody battle for hnnian freedom, which ended only after half a 
million of men were slain by the snrrender of the insnrgent armies 
in 1865. I liave heard him speak of standing with his hand in 
his motlier's, beiiind the rude parental habitation in Kansas, when 
but a youth, to avoid the bullets fired by those who sought to carry 
slavery into the fair territory west of Missouri. 

From patriotic, freedom-loving lips of parents and in tlie fierce 
struggle to stay aggressive slavery in its threatening efforts to se- 
cure supremacy Dudley C. Haskell early learned heroic lessons 
which guided him tiirongh life. He was a volunteer soldier in the 
late war. 

He served three terms in the iioiise of representatives of the State 
of Kansas, the last term as its speaker. He was a distinguished 
public educator. He served three full terms in this House, includ- 
ing the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty -seventh Congresses, 
and he was here, though prostrated on Ids death-bed, with hopeful 
anxiety to take the oatii of office and enter upon a term in this 
House to which he had l>een by iiis constituents elected.. Through 
his friends he besougiit the Speaker to find some justifiable prece- 
dent or constitutional right to go to his bedside and qualify him as 
a member of this House by administering to him the oath pre- 
scribed by law and the Constitution. He had a colleague select 
him a seat, which lie prayed to be spared to occupy. He, prompted 
by duty' to his constituents and to his country, besought tiie privi- 
lege, through a colleague, to offer a large number of bills he had 
prepared, so that they might go earlj' to committees. His thoughts 
in his last hours were of duty here, tiiough iiis malady was of a 
kind that caused him much bodily pain. 

Death brought peace and tranc[uil!ity to a busy, restless soul, and 
changed duty on earth and to his fellow-man to other and higher 
duties in realms above. 



24 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF nVDI.EY C. HASKELL. 

He was a firm believer in God and a better life bevond tlu,' u^i-ave, 
and he lived an honest, pure, Cliristian life, worthv of example to 
all. 

He was a man of firm convictions and keen perceptions of the 
right. He was opposed to slavery, to polygamy, and to every evil 
that degraded the human race. He was no fanatic. He gave a 
reason for his belief, and generally found the right one. His san- 
guine temperament gave him the appearance at times of being hasty 
in reaching and expressing conclusions on grave questions. But 
he was a student, and made his researches patiently and generallv 
alone; and when his mind was satisfied he zealously tried to im- 
press his views upon others. He gave little, if any, time to idle 
speculation over important subjects, but preferred bv study to ex- 
haust them before he talked much about them. 

He was temperate in his habits, and only intemperate in his cease- 
less toil. He had little time for social life, not that he was averse 
to it, but because he regarded it time lost. Perhaps more of social 
commingling and less of constant application to what he regarded 
his higher duty would have prolonged his life. and his usefulness. 

His great, strong body was too seldom relaxed, and, as a conse- 
quence, physical exhaustion came, followed by death. 

The sum of his work in his six years of Congressional life is great, 
and in point of material usefulness to his country equals the best of 
his colleagues or predecessors. 

In the beginning of the American Congress a member of tliis 
House represented about 30,000 inhabitants. Mr. Haskell 
received, when elected to the Forty-seventh Congress, 30,758 
votes, and there were cast in his district at the same election 54,495 
votes, representing a population of probably 275,000, enough to 
have given above nine Representatives in the first Congress. The 
average population of a district, based on the population of 1880, is 
151,912. 

It is not in the matter of pupulation alone that we find evidence 
of multiplied duties for members of this House over those of mem- 
bers of earlier days. It is more marked in the new, multiplied, 
and diversified interests of the present as compared with those of 



ADDllESS OF MR. KFAFER, OF OHIO. 25 

the earlier and simpler days of the Republie. The duties of a inein- 
her now exceed the necessary duties of a mendier in earlier days so 
ninch that comparison is hardly possible. His duties then and now 
can more appnjpriately be placed in contrast than in comparison. 

We look to I'emote times for the higher types of statesmanship 
because we are too apt to revere, indiscriminately, men and things 
of the past. I believe modern statesmen are purer, abler, harder- 
worked if not wiser men than their predecessors. 

When Mr. Haskkli. was made a member of tlie Ways and 
Means Committee of this House in the last Congress, he was not 
specially familiar with the details of the important business to be 
brought before it, yet when it ended its labors with the C'ongress 
he was master of the subjects before that committee. None excelled 
him. His labors bore fruits which have ripened in the sunshine 
of material progress and have been garnered by a busy, prosperous 
nation. He loved and clung to his wife and children. Thev loved 
him. Mr. Haskef,!, fell at his post of life's duty. He so lived 
as to be ready and prepared to die. He successfully tried to do his 
duty to his country, his family, and to his God. His body was 
borne from the scene of his toil and public life here to his Western 
home, and buried there with honor in the midst of a people who 
knew, loved, and trusted him. They were proud of him in life; 
he of them. Dead, they honor and revere his memory. He fought 
for the rights and liberties of man, and went down in the fore 
front. His whole career blossomed with patriotism and love for 
his fellow-men. He lies buried among a restless, dauntless, am- 
bitious peoi)le. This is eminently fitting and proper. 

Let till' sound of those be wrought for, 
Aud the feet of those he fought for, 
Echo round his bones for evermore. 

And further, in the words of England's laureate : 
Such w.as he: his work is done ; 
But while the races of mankind endure. 

Let his great example stantl 

Colossal, seen of every land, 
And keo|> the soldier firm, the statesman pure, 

Till in all lands and thro' all human story 

The path of duty he the way to glory. 



26 A//'A' JNn CHAIUCTEIl OF DUDLEY C. HASKELL. 



Address of Mr. McKinley, of Ohio. 

Mr. Speakeu : I cannot permit this occasion to pass witliout 
adding a word expressive of my high appreciation of the character 
and qualities of onr late associate, and of the deep sorrow I feel in 
common with many others at his early and premature death. 

I knew Dudley C. HasIvELL well and intimately. We en- 
tered Congress at the same time, seven years ago, and early in our 
service here became friends. This friendship grew warmer, closer, 
and more confiding until the day of his death. During the last 
Congress it was my fortune to be a fellow-member of the same 
committee, and almost daily for months we sat side by side in tlie 
committee room. It was there I came to learu his virtues and ap- 
preciate his high qualities of head and heart. He was a valued 
friend, unselfish and always manly, and a steady ally in committee 
or on the floor of the House. He was. a man of pure thought and 
lofty purposes, keen perception and clear judgment, whose life was 
helpful to all who came within the circle of his influence, and whose 
strong individuality impressed itself upon the affairs in wliich lie 
took part. 

He was a man of great integrity. There were no dark corners 
in his ciiaraeter to be hid from sight; his life was an open book of 
rare worth, without blur or defect. His politics, like his religion, 
were born of genuine conviction. He loved liberty, and hated op- 
pression and proscription in every form. He would become elo- 
quent and his words glowed with rare fervor in his recital of the 
early struggles of his State for liberty and free government. He 
had convictions and they pierced and possessed his soul. They were 
a pjirt of him, and he never lacked the courage to utter them. Pie 
was a man of stern will and unremitting industry. He never 
spared himself or shirked duty, responsibility, or labor. He was 
an indefatigable worker, often touching the extreme limit of physi- 
cal possibilities. He was not only a student but he was a scholar; 
however, most of his intellectual equipment was self-acquired and 
earned outside of college walls. He never stopped until he had 



ADDRESS OF MR. RICE, OF MASSACHUSETTS. 27 

mastered the subject in liand. He built from tlie bottom, digging 
deep, and he always buiided well. 

He was a strong debater, witii a voice which could penetrate 
every part of this Hall; with great readiness, a commanding pres- 
ence, and a well-stored mind, he stood in the front rank of the ablest 
and best of his fellow-members. 

In the Forty-seventh Congress he took a high place among his 
associates, and had he been permitted to take his seat iu this Con- 
gress he would have stood abreast of those to whom we gladly accord 
the rank of leadership. 

Death claimed him at the very threshold of a great career — at 
the moment when he seemed best prepared for wider usefulness 
and for theachieveraentof higher triumphs, when he appeared best 
titted to serve his State and country. But he is gone. Dudley 
C. Haskell is no longer among us, called by a wise Providence 
from this presence. We bow to this decree, pausing only a little 
while to-day, not to question the inscrutible mysteries of that Provi- 
dence or to challenge His ordering, liut to pay our last tribute, give 
our heart offerings to one who in life we loved and honored, and 
who, though removed from these scenes forever, leaves behind 
naught but memories most ^^leasingand reflections most instructive, 
and the record of a life the study of which cannot fail to make us 
better citizens, wiser and more faithful representatives of the peo- 
ple. His family have lost the devoted husband and the affectionate 
and generous father, his district and State a strong Representative 
on this floor, the country at large a wise and patriotic public serv- 
ant, and all of us a faithful friend and valuable associate. 



Address of Mr. Rice, of Massachusetts. 

Mr. Speaker: Mr. Haskell was born in Vermont in 1842. 
When he was less than a year old his father moved to Massachu- 
setts. The father was a strong, energetic, restless man, of that 
peculiar New England type who have carried and planted the 
principles and institutions of the Puritans from Plymouth to Ore- 



28 ///'/:; 1X1) CHAKACTEI! OF DUDLEY C. HASKELL. 

gon. During the tt-n years lie lived in Massachusetts he was a 
resident in half as many different towns, making his mark in all 
as a man of spirit and vigor but finding a settled home in none. 
At last, in 1853, he came to North Brookfield, a town in my own 
county, then, as now, famous for the manufacture of boots and 
shoes. In that beautiful village, under the shadow of the largest 
boot factory in the world, he rested in his wanderings and fancied 
he iiad found permanent shelter and honic Dudley attended the 
public school during its sessions, and worked in the boot factory 
in odd hours and vacations. Pegging machines, except of human 
flesh and blood, had not then been invented, and the little fellow 
pegged brogans made of unbleached russet leather for the Southern 
market. He was industrious and earned good wages, but is still 
remembered as sometimes apparently forgetting his work and los- 
ing himself in reverie. He was called absent-minded. Was he 
dreaming of the time when he should stand, the central figure to 
thousands of eyes, uttering words to be read by millions, influen- 
tial iu shaping the laws of the Re])ublic, freest and most imperial 
of history? 

With characteristic enterprise, tiie father invested all his re- 
sources in constructing from an aljandoned church a four-teuement 
house. It was nearly finished for its new purpose, when, on the 
night of July 4, 1854, it was bin-ned to the ground. The father 
was ruined, financially, by the calamity; to the son it opened the 
career which was to lead on and up to the high places of the land. 

In 1851 Kansas was a wilderness. The tide of emigration had 
reached the great rivers; all along its path the struggle had been 
waged, with varying fortune, between the spirit of freedom and of 
slavery. On the bordei'S of the new Territory the rival forces 
mustered for desperate conflict — should Kansas be slave or free? 
It seemed as if on the answer to that question hung the mighty 
issue whether freedom or slavery should forever rule the Republic. 
Far away on the Atlantic coast, Massachusetts watched the ct)nflict 
and essayed her best endeavors that Kansas should be free. An 
emigrant aid association was organized ; Eli Thayer of Worcester 
was its projector, Amos Lawrence of Boston its banker, Charles 



JDDUESS OF J//?. BrCE, OF MAl^SACHUSETTS. 29 

Robinson of Fitclibiirg its pioneer. A surveying party was sent 
out in tlie spring of 1854 who selected a site for a city and named 
it Lawrence. In August, 1854, the second party of emigrants left 
Worcester under the lead of Charles Robinson; they were tall 
men and strong; they were inspired by that strange, fierce instinct, 
that love of adventure mingled with devotion to a cause, which has 
impelled the Saxon race westward from the center of Northern 
Europe over ocean and continent, planting everywhere the pillars 
of a civilization higher and stronger than the world had known 
before. 

In this company of emigrants was Mr. Haskell, senior. The 
month before, all his worldly wealth had vanished in smoke aud 
ashes. With undaunted heart he turned his back upon his past, 
his face set towards an unknown and perilous future. I saw him 
that summer afternoon as he commenced his journey ^or a new 
home and a free one. In one hand he carried his blanket, in the 
other his Sharps rifle. 

He did not return; but, in the following March, Dudlev and 
his mother, with anotiier company, joined the earlier settlers, and 
found their iiome in Lawrence. 

The father survived but three years. An elder brother stepped 
into the vacant place, and was to Dudley both brother and father. 
He urged and helped him to study, aud thereby fitted him for the 
useful and conspicuous life — all too brief — for which he was des- 
tined. At the age of thirty-four he was the honored Representa- 
tive in Congress of the great State with nearly a million people 
which was an unpopulated wilderness when, a l)oy of fifteen, he 
first set foot upon its soil. 

First elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, he was prevented by sick- 
ness from taking the oath on the first day of the session. Many 
days later he made his appearance, and we saw for the first time his 
tall, erect, stalwart figure on this floor. 

I can see his face as I saw it then, fixed, earnest, resolved, and 
as I recall it I fancy that I discern that absent, far-away, dreamy 
expression his comrades saw on it when he was a bov. 

From his entrance here he was a marked man. His command- 



30 LIFE AND CHARACTEli OF DUDLEY C. HASKELL. 

ing figiu'C and powei'ful voice enabled him to force iiis way to 
the front in the stormy debates in which he so often took a part. 
Sometimes in the early part of his service we might think that he 
spoke too often and with too little forethought, but we soon learned 
that he was sincere- and earnest ; that he never spoke without an 
honest purpose, and that his very vehemence was but the effort of 
his strong bufnot thoroughly disciplined intellect to force its 
thoughts into jiroper and consistent jihrase. No man grew more 
rapidly than he in confidence, esteem, and influence. He soon 
ceased to be a scout, a skirmisher, a sharjj-shooter, and became a 
leader of the center columns. About him were men, veterans in 
service, who had made party issues, questions of political economy, 
their study for scores of years; others trained and disciplined by 
the tough contests of professional life, and others polished and re- 
fined by the highest culture of this most cultured age; but among 
them all none were more conspicuous in the great debates of the 
last Congress than this young man of Kansas, who, through an 
unsettled childhood, a destitute orphanage, a hand-to-hand strug- 
gle for bread and a place among his fellows, at forty years seemed 
to have reached but the beginning of his development. 

Six brief, bright years of public service, and, " weary with the 
march of life," he fell — and perished? No, he lives yet — we may 
not say in what other sphere — he lives here, in the memory of 
what he did, teacher, example, guide to the young men of the 
land. 

Without early advantages he did not despond, but constantly 
pressed forward in usefulness and distinction. Engrossed in ex- 
acting occupation, he never forgot the wife and children who loved 
him for his unselfish, unremitting tiioughtfulness and care. Poor, 
wanting many things, sometimes hardly pressed, he was always 
honest; no bribe ever crossed his hand, no thought of illicit gain 
ever sullied his pure and upright manhood. 

lie was ambitious. Let us not deny it. " He bore the banner 
with the strange device, excelsior." Let us not blame, but praise 
him for it. Ambition is one of God's best gifts to men. It forces 
them out of low surroundini/s, out of iuiiorance and sloth, into the 



AUDHESS OF J/7?. HVSSEI.L, of MASSACHUSETTS. 31 

higher sunh'ght on the hills. It has its victims. De Long, dying 
in the snow, was one ; Gordon, going alone to the succor of outly- 
ing posts of civilization, may be another; but the world is better 
f'di- thini ; it builds temples to their memory, sacred places wherein 
we wursiiip and give thanks that patience, heroism, and high as- 
piration are still omnipotent in the soul of man. Haskell was 
ambitions to serve well and deserve much. He accomplished his 
wish, but in doing it he assumed burdens he could not carry long. 
Fallen in his prime, we mourn for him as a friend ; but we are 
proud of him as another example of what can be done in this free 
land, in self develojiment and advancement, by those who will and 
work. 



Address of Mr. RusSELL, of Massachusetts. 

]\Ir. Spkakei: : ^^\• pause from our legislative <luties to-day to 
pay homage to no ordinary man. 

Dudley Cha.se Haskei,l, the departed statesman, w hose loss 
the whole country deeply mourns, possessed qualities of head and 
heart which commanded respect and admiration, not only at his 
home and in his State, where he was longer known, but in this 
arena which so severely tries and tests all men. 

Mr. Speaker, I cannot claim an intimate acquaintance with jNIr. 
Haskell, as I saw but little of him in the private walks of life ; 
but born as he was in my native State, Vermont, I had a watchful 
interest and natural pride in his public career. In the Forty-sixth 
Congress I only knew him as a ready and feai'less debater on the 
floor of the House. The earnestness with which he espoused every 
great cause that came before Congress impressed his associates that 
he was interested and actuated by conscientious motives. A most 
striking illustration of this is his brilliant and powerful speech in 
the first session of the Forty-seventh Congress, in which he so ably 
discussed and denounced in such scathing terms that wicked .ws- 
tem of polygamy, which has so long tarnished and disgraced our 
national reputation. 

In the last Congress, where we were thrown together in the 



32 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF DUDLEY C. HASKELL. 

Committee on Ways and Means, I became intimate with him. I 
saw him wrestle day by day for several weeks, with all the power 
and enthusiasm of his nature, with that great ecoiiomio jjroblem — 
the tariiF. This committee, owing to the short time it had to re- 
vise the work of the Tariff Commission, gave no public hearings, 
which forced the representatives of the numerous interests to be 
affected by tariff legislation to seek personal interviews with the 
members of the committee. The daily attendance of members at 
the sessions of the committee and House necessitated those inter- 
views at the homes of the members, which tended to lengthen the 
days and shorten the nights, testing their physical capacity almost 
beyond endurance. It was this long and incessant labor which 
laid, it is believed, the foundation of an illness from which Mr. 
Haskell never recovered. He was untiring in his labors, and 
appeals to him to investigate the facts in relation to any interest 
touched by the bill then under considerati(m were never thrust 
aside; but his readiness to undertake and his capacity to under- 
stand were a marvel to all who came in contact with him. 

As a representative from an agricultural State he occupied a 
somewhat advanced position on the question to which he devoted 
the last days of his Congressional life. But having spent his 
early life in New England, where he acquired his education, and 
where he had seen so fully illustrated the benefits and advantages 
of the protective tariff system, he espoused that cause, and ever 
after supported it with all his power, believing that it was not only 
for the best interest of his own State but for the whole country. 

The bill which he helped to formulate in committee and so ably 
defended and advocated on the floor of the House became a law, 
and Congress adjourned. But that did not bring to Mr. Has- 
kell needed rest. Having a somewhat doubting constituency he 
devoted a large part of his vacation to carrying on, in public 
meetings and in print, the tariff discussion. Thus deprived of 
the opportunity to regain his wasted energies, when he came to 
Washingtou in November to resume his duties he was broken in 
health. Tiiough he gradually failed after his arrival, neither his 
piiysiiuan nor his immediate friends anticipated so sudden an end. 



jDfinEss or mi;, /.t.n-.s /;/./,, i>r M.tss.iciirs/rrrs. 33 

He passed sileiitlv and praccinlly away in the rarly dawn t<t' Siin- 
dav, the 16th of DeceailHT. The |(iil)lic had had no waininjr and 
were both slioeked and surprised at his deatli. 

This breaking up of strong men is a siiffieient answer to tlie 
popular delusion that a Congressman's life is one of pleasure and 
idleness. If one yields to the demands of legislative duties and 
to the various appeals of his eonstituents it will most thoioughly 
test the ability and pliysieal cndtu-anee of the stn^ngest. 

Mr. Haskell's life, though short in years, was large in aeiMim- 
plishmeut. He had served his eountry in the Army, his State 
with distinction as legislator, as speaker of the house, and in Con- 
gress for six years. To our limited view it would appear that at 
this early age, forty-one yejirs, he was cut down at the tlireshold 
of his greatest usefulness. 

In the presence of a higher wisdom and power we wonder, we 
regret, and reverently sul)mit. If he was to be removed from us, 
I was glad of the privilege to be one to bear his remains to their 
last resting-plaee, andaeoompany that bereaved and stricken family 
to their small but l)cautiful cottage on that eminence overloolving 
the city of the living so long his home, and the city of the dead 
where he was laid. 

There was something especially pleasant and attractive about tiie 
homestejKl he had provided for his family, and it seemed now fit- 
ting that it was situated next adjoiniug that of his older brother, 
his only surviving relative, between whom and himself there had 
alway,- existed the most intimate and devoted attachment. The 
widow and the fatherless children may liere live under the protect- 
ing shadow of their remaining staif, a brother's protecting care. 

The love for our deceased fellow-member and the esteem in 
which he was held in the community in whicii he lived were shown 
by the general suspension of business and the draped jjrivate and 
public buildings on the day of his burial. 

Mr. Haskell's true (christian character was not only appre- 
ciated and understood by his neighbors and the church to which 
he belonged but was known and felt by all who came within his 
inrtuence. 

H. Mis. 46 3 



.•<4 A//'/i .iM) (■ii.\i;.\('ri:i: (if urniJiY <: iiashf.i.i.. 

'riioiiii;li our friend lias passed away, liis j)iirG and npriglit \ir'\- 
vatc and pul)lie life must leave an iuflueu(;e f()rgood,and his ra])id 
advancement and hrilliant eareor may l)c an iii-piratii)n td the young 
men of his State and the country. 

In Mr. Haskell's death this Congress has lost an al)le mem- 
ber, the country a broad and progressive statesman, Kansas one of 
her largest-niiuded and noblest citizens, the widow a true and fliud 
husband, the children a devoted and loving lather. 

Mr. Speaker, since we were selected from the people for tiiis Con- 
gress seven of our number have been called to that undiscovered 
country whence no traveler returns. Certainly we are not without 
admonition or warning of the unc:;rtaiuty of human life and that 
the grim messenger, Death, is no respecter of persons nor waits 
any allotted length of life. 



Address of Mr. Burnes, of Missouri. 

Mr. Speaker : Dudley C. Haskell was my neighbor. His 
late constituents are neighbors of my constituents. Just across 
the mightiest and longest river on this continent he lived from 
boyhood to middle-age under my observation. 

I cannot hope on this occasion to express satisfactorily the height 
or depth of my appreciation of his pure and exaltcl character, but 
silence would be a disapj3ointment to the good people I have the 
honor to represent and an injfistice to my State. A wide divergence 
in political sentiment creates no prejudice against the possessor of 
high personal integrity and profound nioral worth. 

Every intellect perhaps is dominated by some ideal man who 
exists and can only exist in the imagination. Outward circum- 
stances and surroundings reduce the ideal at last to the practical, 
and myriad Utopias are forever abandoned and uncolonized. Mr. 
Haskell had ideals and ideals, but he was never a dreamer. He 
sought not a limit in the limitless, a period iu eternity, an cteruity 
in human achievement. He believed in creation, but it was in 
the creation of labor, genius, and activity. With him speech was 



ADDRESS Of Ml;. lllltSlCS, OF MlSSOflH. 'Af) 

for light and eiiliglitoiunciit ; ami lie held it vain and iiit'aiiiiigli'ss 
unless accompanied hy constant, earnest work for the benefit and 
elevation of mankind. When Omnipotence determined upon the 
wonderful creations in, above, and around us, everything rerjuired 
time and labor save light. This He spake into existence by the 
divine command, "Let there be ligiit!" 

Mr. Haskell was at once a believer and a worker. He be- 
lieved in God and in labor also; in everything that was true and 
beautiful, and in every good work. He believed in his State and 
loved her. He believed in his people, and confided in and trusted 
them without reserve. He believed in his home, and made it, for 
himself and all its loved inmates, the holiest, happiest place on 
earth, loved and prized away above and beyond all the glamour 
and fascination with which the world allures. He believed in and 
loved the sunset, for he had seen it in Kansas, as it is seen no- 
where else on the earth, reflected i)ack through the golden bowels 
of the Rocky Range. 

He was essentially the growth and [)roiluet oi' Kansas. Born in 
a State which has been said to lie tlie l)est in the l^nion to emi- 
grate from, he carried with him to his new home on the banks of 
tiie Kaw all the sturdy elements of the New England character, 
wiiose groundwork is faith, patience, and perseverance. When 
scarcely ten years old lie heard the wliisj)ered words of preparation 
for the historic struggles that drove African .slavery from Kansas 
and added Ad astra per aspera to the Federal constellation. He 
had seen the assault, the charge, and the torch in his beautiful city 
of Lawrence; and further on had heard in the streets the murder- 
ous shouts of Quantrell and his demoniac legion rioting in the 
innocent blood of a hundred victims. Had he not been a Chris- 
tian scenes like these might have made him a revengeful monster; 
but when the excitement was over, kneeling reverently in tiie 
midst of the dead and dying, if his lips did not utter, his lieart 
responded to God, even in that terriide hour of death ami ruin, 
"Father, forgive them; they know not what they do." 

He was the growth and product of Kansas ; he w'as more. He 
was thoroughly Western and American besides. Anything that 



,'l(i LIFE AM) CIIAUAClEi; (IF lillU.EY c. IIASKEI.I.. 

man had ever 'lone lie hcliiAcd lliat man eonld >u\\ do. Sell-re- 
liant almost to raslmess, he ne\'er hesitated in the line ol'dnty to 
I'caeh ont for the possiMe. I lis investigation of a snhjeel ended 
only in its mastery. To ohsenre' or eont'nse it was alike impossihie 
and unnecessary. Ho was ambitious, and had a rii;ht to he. In 
public life he found a restless yet faseinatinj^ pleasure. Success 
attended him. To the honors of collegiate labor were soon add(Kl 
those of his State and country. Worthilv won, thev were honor- 
ably worn. Achieved by honest merit, they were eularticd ami 
burnished by honest toil and patriotic sacrifices. The trusts re- 
posed in him were sacredly executed. His pledged word was in- 
violate. His political honor, equally with his personal honor, he 
kept saereil and spotless. True, brave, and steadfast, his acquaint- 
ances became his friends, and the latter were nHdtii)lied. His 
constituents followed him with pride. He was fit to lead. His 
arguments in this forum were rejieated to them without evasion or 
apology. Frank and honest with his people, he could but be frank 
and honest with his colleagues on this floor. Seeking to represent 
faithfully his district and State, he yet had less of the laudible sel- 
fishness of local or geographical interests than any of his compeers, 
and was never unmindful of the great duties he owed to the wdiole 
country. He studied and toiled and struggled. Thorough in 
investigation, accurate in detail, logical in argument, and often elo- 
quent in application and conclusion, he grew strong in debate, and 
advanced toward the leadership of his party. He was becoming 
a giant. 

Elected a member of this Congress, his responsibilities were en- 
larged by the general recognition of his intellectual power. He 
■seemed to realize the fact, and pnspared himself to meet it. No 
command of his physicians, no appeal of his anxious friends, could 
swerve him from what he believed to be the path o'" duty. He 
believed the mind should dominate the body, whatever the stress 
or strain. He had thought nuich upon legislation, and saw, or 
thought he saw, the work of his hands in former Congresses about 
to be reviewed by his political adversaries. The sharp, keen con- 



ADDUIiSS (IF MI!. BllCMCS, OF MISSOUHI. 37 

Hict iit'miiul witli miiul :iiiil system with system was already be- 
fore liis eye.s. He saw the euiniii^- all-niglit vigils, and the glare 
and heatof the fierce onset — the thrust, tlu' parry, and the parliamen- 
tary blow. The tunndt of'aetion and eheers of vietory resounded 
in his ears as, unconsciously, his vital force was departing, pitifully 
ominous of tile end. At his post of duty, overtaxe*! and overbur- 
dened bv the peculiar exactions of C'ongressional life in this House, 
the lamented Haskell, like many anotlier, die<l a martyr to his 
moral convictions of oflicial obligation. 

His life, in all of its nlations, was singularly pure, winning, and 
lovable. As a neighbor, notadrop of Levitical blood waseverlodge<l 
in his veins. As a Christian, he was the same on the street as at the 
altar; on the lastsix days of the week as on the first. He reverenced 
his honored parents, and ever rendered them a cheerful obedience. 
His tenderness and unselfish love for his true and faithful wife 
grew into conjugal idolatry ; and hisab.solute devotion to his gifted 
brother marked every word and act of his life. "Sir," .said an old 
friend of the family, on the day of the funeral, "the father nuist 
have ofl repeated to his sons the fable of the old man and the bun- 
dle of sticks, for never havt' I known brothers so loving and de- 
voted to each other as John and Dudley Haskell." ^A'hat adivine 
panegyric upon both ! 

Sir, there was no drought of tears in Kansas when your commit- 
tee tenderly deposited the remains of Dudley C. Haskell in 
the warm and generous bosom of his beloved Commonwealth. 
Every home wore the emblems of a tearful bereavement; from 
every eye fell {warly drops of .sympathy, and in every heart was 
a throb of love for the living and the dead. Thus the grave closed 
over him beneath "an arch of steel." 

The twin homes, side by side, on the limits of the Ixnxutiful an<l 
historic city of Mis.souri's neighboring sister, are sorely stricken. 
Not more the head of one than the light of the other, and the love 
of both, he is already seated in a higher congress than this, over 
which Jesus, our Saviour, in love and mercy unerringly presides. 



38 /.//■'/•-• AM) CHAH.tCTJCIl (IF DUDLEY C. HASKELL. 



Address of Mr. Browne, of Indiana. 

To oiir i-oll-call, i\Ir. Speaker, Di'dlky C. II.\ski:i,l no lonjicr 
answers. He will meet ih in founcil no more. His very silence; 
a'iiiioiiislie.s us that our days are crowded with .sorrows, that joy 
palls, h(]j)e inislends, and that 

Life i.s but. a wulkiiij; .sliadow. 
It teaches us the lesson of tolerance and humility, rebukes our 
|)ride, points us from a fadeil past, and liids us hope the glowing- 
radiance of a future life. 

My acquaintance with Haskell began with the Forty-fifth 
Congress. We entered that Congress together, and from that time 
mitil his death, a period of .seven eventful years, I was an almost 
daily witne.ss of the ability and courage which he brought to the 
discharge of his official duties. When he took his seat in this body 
he was a young man of but thirty-five, in vigorous health, with 
muscle hardened by the athletic games and sports of his college 
days, the hardships of a ciinip life, and the activities of an exacting 
business. Among all his a.ssociates of the House none seemed to 
have a firmer hold or a longer lease on life. He appeared to be 
one whom Fate had reserved for a bright and useful manhood. 

But he was called to rest as he was being fully equipped for 

labor. His life ended before its work had fairly begun ; but short 

as was his career it had demonstrated a capacity for usefidne.ss and 

gave promi.se of an illustrious future. When Death called him he 

was not 

All old man, broken with the storms of stato, 

but was in the vigor of a just ripening manhood. It came when 

the heart beat high, when ambition was on the wing, when coming 

y(«rs were glowing with brightness. 

kh\ what is huiiiau lifi' f 
Itow, like the dial's tanly iiioviiij; shade, 
Day after day slides from us iiuperceiveU ! 
The cuuuiug fugitive is swift by stealth ; 
Too subtle i.s the luoveineut to be .seen ; 
Yet soon the hour is up, and we are ^'one. 



jDDiiicss OF .\n;. Bitonyic, of ixdiaxj. 39 

l'iil)lic nioii have sdinctimcs HvihI t(«i long, lived until the weak- 
nesses of age entrapped them into a mistake that ohseiired the rec- 
ord of their earlier iieliievements ; but he of wliom we speak died 
all too soon. His resourees had never been fully brought out. Ho 
had not been permitted to gjitlier what he had sown, nor had he 
wrought a full day of labor. He had not attained the fullness of 
his intellectual growth. Before the op[K>rtunity eanie for bringing 
out his highest capabilities he was gone, and the world now can 
only measure him by the work he has lefl beliind him. In tiic 
humble tribute I pay his memory to-day I will refer briefly to some 
of Iiis traits of character a.s they impressed me during my acquaint- 
ance witli him in this body, but the most I know of him I learned 
from the friends of his youth and of his manhood, whose eyes moist- 
ened and whose li[)s quivered as they gave me the story of his life. 

Before coming here HaskelIj had served with distin(^tion in the 
general assembly of his State, and was well trained in the methods 
of legislative proceedings. He was from the beginning of his Con- 
gressional career recognized as among the foremost of iiis partv. 
As an evidence of the estimate put on his al>ilily by those witli 
wlioui lie scrvcil, lie wiLs assigned places upun the most im|)ortant 
committees of the House. He was ef[ual always to the duties In; 
a.ssumed. 

In debate Haskell talked well. He seldom wandered from his 
subject, and never fell below the level of the occasion. He was of 
a robust and well-disciplined mind, and culpable of striking vigor- 
ous blows for what lie believed to be right. In the declaration of 
his opinions lie was bold and frank, and he maintained his views 
with great zeal. Of an activeand aggressive temperament, he some- 
times asserted his convictions with an earnestness that seemed dic- 
tatorial, but he was ever unconscious of a purpose to offen<l. San- 
guine a.s he was he kept his temper under good control, and was 
seldom, even in the fiercest debate, betrayed into an oflen'sive or 
intemperate expression. He asserted himself with much positivc- 
ness, and was unwilling to seek success through concession or sur- 
render. To hini dciLibts were traitdrs, and he never allowed tlicni 



40 /.//■'/•-' .r.\7> CIIAUACTKH OF IHIIIJIV C. IIASKEIJ.. 

to cuter tlic (Idiiiaiii of liis beliefs. He \v;is ([iiirk in (Imiul;1i( :iiii1 
prompt in net ion. 1 lis was 

Till' lii'oii spirit 
'I'liiit 8(^iz<^,H tlic |ii<)iii|il, uc(,Msi(iii— tiiuUi's the IIkiii.uIiI 
Start into Instaiit action, ami at once 
Plans and porfoiMns, rcsolvi >, and cxccntcs. 

Tie was a worker. His was a gLMiiiis tliat not only fiiriiislied its 
"own fuel, hut liglited its own fire." He never allowed iiis en<'r^ies 
to stagnate. 

Tliose of us wlio served with iiini in the Forty-seventh Con- 
oress will not soon forget how, througli the weary days of the tariif 
and reveiuie discussion, lie came every morning to the contest with 
his armory full of wi'apons botii ollonsive and ilefensive. His 
nights were devoted to study, his days to work. When the House 
adjourned lie became a learner ; when it nact he was a teacher. T( i me 
it seemed that he had mastered the minutest detail of the ciini|)lex 
measure under consideratiou. The fullness of his infonuation, the 
exactness of his knowledge of every branch of the sul)ject, was a 
surprise to all who did not know his inflexible purpose and un- 
tiring energy. 

It is more than proi)abU' that these labors so severclv taxed his 
physical resources as to hasten his death; but as man's life-work is 
all he has to front eternity with, it is no cause for .sorrow that the 
death wound is received on the field of duty. To know a man's 
real character, to pass correct judgment on his inner life — his life 
of motive, of atiection, of devotion to duty — we must learn in 
what e.stcem he is held by those who have in prosperity and adver- 
.sity seen his daily walk and conversation. Both adversity and 
prosjierity try the forties of man's spiritual nature. Hasickll 
had seen both; had been de|)ressed by the one and encouraged 
and comforted by the other. On the one hand business misfor- 
tunes had overtaken him, while on the other political preferment — 
through the expression of a people's confidence — had crowned him 
with honor. 

At every step he had b(<'n confronted by atluty recpiiring fiir its 



ADDiaCSS or MU.'-BUOWyE, or IXDIAXA. 41 

])cil(iriii;iiiee a couragooii.s maiilioo<l, ami his noighhors wlio liail 
witnessed these struggles hore cheerful testimony to tlieir nianfiil- 
ness. His days were not all calm, and bright; clouds gathiTcd 
over them and shrouded them in shadow and darkness; but, stand- 
ipi; witliin these shadows, lie took the measure and method of 
tlie world's selfishness, felt the full force of the disaster tiiat re- 
duced him and his loved ones to the verge of poverty, but tiiroiigh 
il all iii- integrity and iiprightness of character were not fur a 
moment under a cloud. lie never made money a god ; never 
veteranized in tiie war for gold or l)ecame soul-scarred in tiic 
scramble for wealth. It became my sad duty, under the direc- 
tion of this House, t() accompany tliose who bore iiis remains to 
the citv of his home, to the pco])le among whom lie iiad long 
lived and labored, and by whom he had been four times ciiosen 
a Uepreseiitativc here. The grief of his people was unmistak- 
able. 

A largely-attended jmblic meeting of the citizens of Lawrence 
and surrounding country had met and given suitable exj)ression of 
their sorrow for the loss of their honored fellow-citizen. 'Plic 
citv was (lra[)ed in mourning, and, as wa.s said of Mirabcau, the 
people crowded "about the house of their trii)uue as if to catcli 
inspiration from his coffin." In his death some had lost a coun- 
selor, some a leader, ail a friend. The funeral services were helil 
in the church in whii'h he liad been for years a worshiper, and 
here those who had wrought with him in tiie church and the Sai)- 
bath-school spoke feelingly and elo(piently of tlie purity of his 
life and his faithfulness to every Christian duty. 

H.vsKELL was an active worker iu the church and a firm be- 
liever in the gospel of Jesus of Nazareth. His pastor and liis 
colaborers spoke of his life as a lovely example of Christian 
purity, and one that was in tiie higliest and be.st sense loyal to its 
profcs.sed faith. His faitli in the Christian system was deep and 
abiding; it was tiie anchor to his hope of the life eternal. To liim 
a confession of nnlielicf was a wail of pain and despair. lie liad 
ail uniiciniitiiig taitii in man's immortality. To the incpiiry tii'liie 



42 LIFE AXD CnAUAcrEI! OF lUDI.KY C. H.ISKELL. 

|xitriarcli, " If ;i uuui die, sliall Ik; lisu again?'' lie wuuld have 
answered : 

Shall I lie left foi-fiottoii in the (iiist, 

Wlu'ii Fato, rel''iitiiiK, I'^ts the flowtir revive? 
Sliall Nature's voice, to man alone niijust, 

Bit! him, tUoni^h doom'd to perish, hope to live? 

Is it for this fair Virtue oft must strive 
With (lisappoiutmeut, pei'iiry, and painf 

N »! Heaven's iniiiiorral sjirin;; sliall yet arrive, 
And man's majestic beauty bloom again 
liriglit through th' eteiTial year of triumphant ri'igu. 

But his mute lips can send us no niessajie. He hxs passed 
through the gates and is solving tlie great mystery. One who 
went before him said : 

It canuot be that earth is man's only abiding-place. 

It cannot be that life is a babble cast up by the ocean of eternity to tioat a 
nioiiicnt upon its waves and sink into uothiuguess. 

Else why these high and glorious aspirations which leap like angels from 
the temple of our hearts, forever wandering unsatisfied ? Why is it that the 
rainbow and clouds come over with a beauty that is not of earth and then 
jiass off to leave us to muse on their loveliness t Why is it that the stars hold 
their festival around the midnight throne or set above the grasp of our limited 
faculties, forever mocking us with their unapproachable glory ? 

And, finally, why is it that the bright forms of human beatity are pre.sented 
to our view and taken from us, leaving the thousand streams of our affections 
to flow back in Alpine torrents upon our hearts? 

We were born for a higher destiny than earth. 

There is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars sprea<l out 
before ns like the islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beautiful 
things that pass before ns like shadows will stay forever in our presence. 

In this beautiful faith Haskkli. lived and died. 

Some in this day, I know, regard the term " Christian states- 
man " as one of reproach, but I am glad to know that in political 
life there are, oftener than men think, grand characters, who, 
through the blinding glare of wealth and glamour of temptation, 
can .see God and follow Him, and who, above the angry alterca- 
tions of scheming and ambitious partisans, above the tumult of 
the mob that woidd crucify truth and deify falsehood, can hear 
God calling to duty and courageously obey Him. 



ADDSESS OF Ml!. BROWNE, OF INDIANA. 43 

As I cfjiiversed with liis neiglibors I found tlie loveliness of 
Ha.skei.i.'s d(jnicstic life the theme of every tongue. To make 
liis family circle bright and joyous was his uppermost desire. To 
him affection was not simply a name and love a mere passion of 
the hour, but he ever wore the image of his wife and children, 
like beautiful flowers, next his hcjirt. He filled his cottage home 
with smiles and melody, and even in the fiert* tumult of his polit- 
ical struggles that quiet little home among the forest trees was the 
goal of his earthly joys and hopes. It was the Mecca to which his 
heart made constant pilgrimage. That home, ouce so light and 
joyous, is darkened now. The angel of death has shadowed it with 
his wing and turned it into a house of mourning. And now, Mr. 
Speaker, as we pay tribute to the memory of the dead we may pause 
and send a message of sympathy io the widowed wife and orphaned 
children who are stricken by au incurable grief. The place that 
was hallowed by a father's and husband's presence is silent and .sad, 
and that broken and bereaved family, in agonizing tears, stand by 
a fresh-made grave. But the weary body, broken by disease, lies 
where no storm can disturb it. The wrecked bark rides at anchor 
without a disturbing wave. 

A throng of people — friends, neighbors, and strangers — followed 
the hearse of their honored dead to the beautiful cemetery close by 
the city. I was one of that sad cortege. It was a drear December 
day when, with bowed heads and sad hearts, we lowered his body 
to its <:nal abode. His grave was made on a gentle knoll, in sight 
of his cottage and overlooking the steepled city. On it the morn- 
ing sun will rise and evening twilight fade. There the hand of alFec- 
tion will plant the rose and the myrtle. As the years go by the stars 
will shine upon it and the gloom of the nights that are starless robe 
it in blackness. The winter winds will shriek above it, and in the 
spring-time the melody of the bird-song and the perfume of the flow- 
ers will environ it. There in the solemn calm of the grave we left 
iiiiu to await tiie call of the anirels. 



44 iii'ic .i.yi) (ii.MiACTEi; of ihjdi.f.y c. uaskicll. 



Address of Mr. Belford, of Colorado. 

Mr. Si'KAKEU: Among the swcot logoiids nl' tlic ]>;ist \v(' learn 
of two islands lowitod in an uidcnowii sea. Tlic ^nH' was called the 
isl;ind oCtiie living, and the other that of the dead. Into thi^ for- 
mer death iievei' roidd eiiti'r. Its city was resplendent with 
heanty, and in its gardens and ])arks no Hower lost its flush, no 
violet its hue, and no lily \vas ever nnmbed by the hard hand 
of frost. But disease was allowed to visit its iiduihitants. They 
were hlcst with the attributes of immortalily, yet cursed with the 
intirmities of humanity. Tiiere was immense wealth in this island, 
and all the festivities and festoons that it could afford. There were 
drum-beats of glory, and the whirls of the dance, and the soft lute- 
tones of gayety. But the inhabitants of this island wearied of it>s 
joys and activities and sought re[)ose beneath the shadows of the 
island of death. Sleep had taught them that there might be a sur- 
cease from sorrow and that the weary limbs and tired souls might 
somewhere iiud rej)ose. They constructed their barks and entering 
on their uncertain voyage struck for the shores of the other isle and 
reaching them were at rest. 

Does not this legend typify the nlations of those who dwell in 
the annals of time to those who rest in the realms of eternitv ? 
The weariness of life inspires the enjoyment of death, and Ham- 
let expressed but an instinctive fear when he dcehired in his solilo- 
quy that we must not fly from the burdens of to-day to the uncer- 
tainties that might occur to-morrow. ''That which is universal 
cannot be an evil." 

The dread of death is but an animal instinct. The falling of 
th<' leaf is death; ttie withering of the flower is death; the chang- 
ing (if the foliage in the forest is death. 

The wrinkles ou our faces, the increasing gray in our hair, are 
but the indications of the coming of the great Master who gives 
us repose. His hand, after all, is soft as the dews of the morning. 
Even the condemned in his prison eats a hearty meal and sleeps 



iiii>i,-i:ss or mi;. liEi.Fonn, of coloumio. 45 

(|iiic't!v till- nitilit that prcrnlcs liis cxeciitioii. It is iidt ilcatli tlial 
is tciiililc, lint it is tlic s('|iarati<M) from frieiid.s, tlio iiiai)iiity to 
cduvir.^r with tliosL' that are liero and those tliat have (leparted. 
l)\iiiU' is l)iit a disai)])earing mist from tlie crest of thr iiKniiitaiii, 
to \)v fiilloxved hy the sunshine of a better life. Oh, wiiat a niys- 
tei'v is this art of livint,^! Is it not greater tliaii tin.' mystery of 
dviuL;'.' Does one iiring; more hearty anxieties an<l solieitiidi's 
than tlie other? 

The field of infinite and immeasurable s])aee into which we drift 
is i)ut the domain of naked conjecture. But here we ha\e the 
sui)stanee where the cactus and poi.sonous weeds grow and flourish. 
How many ships with fidl sails go out into the bosom of the ocean 
only to return battered and worn! How many hearts commence 
life joyful and gladsome, to afterwards beat irregular ticks, like a 
clcxk out of time! How many things there might have been fin- 
wliicii till' hungry heart sighed and failed to acquire! 

There are many faces in early life gladdened with the; joyance 
<\^ hope and courage, and yet we have seen their smiles fade into 
gloom and sink below the horizon. Does this life, after all, fur- 
nish us with anything but hope inspired and hope disappointed? 
When we contemplate the problem which each of us nuist solve 
cininot we reali/fl; that our departed brother is folded in the realm 
of eternal kindness, and has escaped the perplexities with which 
we are annoyed, and that he is looking upon this world without 
the red rust of tears that we notice in each other's eyes. We 
vainly struggle to reach and measure the deep things hidden from 
our mortal sense. A\'e seek to count the stars, but the mo>t of 
them are out of our telescopic view, and our dull and stuj)id souls 
do not know the deep things that are hidden from us. There is 
but one sure platform on which we can stand, and that is this: 
"That God has chosen for the best." 

The aching heart and the .sorrowful soul look f irward to a 
sweet " By-and-bye," where a pure ideal of what they might have 
been may be realized, and the faults that debased us here may be 
purged and corrected there; where the drooping flower of this 
life may be the erect and stalwart of the ages to come ; wdiere the 



4() A//''^ .fiV/> I'll All AfTEIi OF IlVDLEY C. IIASKIJ.L. 

crookwl ways of" this world may 1)0 made the straiglit ones in the 
next; wiicre tiic sorrows that shrond the weary soul here may be 
ilhiminatcd by the Eternal Sun tliat will make them resplendent 
forever, and that every eye gazing upon them will perceive that 
the light of God's countenance shines through each soul, and will 
ultimately make it beautiful and serene. This is no vain ho])e, 
because it is the harbinger and sunset of the millennium, whose 
arch and span are made up of the promise of beauty and rest. 

Dudley C. Haskell was great and noble-hearted ; his thoughts 
and his deeds blended together like the notes that spring from the 
various strings of a harp. He was courageous and maidy in de- 
bate, and wise and judicious in council. Ho was affiible in his 
manners, loving, trustful, and honest in all his associations. In his 
experience he had learned and felt the sentiments expressed by the 
German poet : 

Who never knew misfortune, lived but half; 

Who never wept, ne'er heartily did laugh : 

Who never failed, could scarce have striven and wrought ; 

Who never doubted, hardly could have thought. 

Through the gradations of labor and poverty he reached this 
House. He was a conspicuous member on its chief committee and 
devoted the energies of his mind and the honesty of his heart to 
revise those great laws which affect the industrial interests of the 
Repul)lic. His lips were too white to utter a lie and his hands too 
pure to accept a bril)e. Why a man thus constituted should in 
the heyday of his youth have been garnered by the harvester 
Death passes niv comprehension. T feel, and I contemplate the 
event, like Schiller felt when he wrote his poem entitled " The 
Battle," and wherein he exclaimed : 

BrotluTs, God grant when this life is o'er, 
III the life to conio that we meet once more. 

Oh, how mournful arc the groans that echo from the chambers of 
death! Of all the sad notes which human ears have heard arc the 
death-notes that accompany the departure of our friends. 

He was plucked from us in the very spring-time of his days, with 



.//(/*/,■ A'.S'.S Of Ml!. ItEI.I'oni), 01' ('(lI.dUAItO. 47 

the pulses of tlioiight stroiii::, vigdi'diis, ami clear. Is Nature in 
couihiuatiuii with luuiiau souls to enable them to reaeh the height 
ofperfeetion in theblush and bloom oftheir youth and vigor? How 
euehantingly the rainbow of future promise must have a])peared to 
him, and w'ith what endearment he must have embraced the proph- 
ecies of the future. It is inexpressibly sad to witness the scissors of 
death severing the threads that bind the human soul to this earth, 
where so much joy and bliss are found. What hopes are crushed ; 
what anticipations arc frosted ? But is it not a compensation that 
in the grave our rest is undisturlied ? No sorrow, no slander, no 
venom, and no temjitation can touch us then. The ocean that sep- 
arates this world from the next no human eye can penetrate. The 
shadow- of the future is on the shore of the present, and what lies 
in that shadow no soul can tell. Oh, how sweet it would be if on 
this ocean that divides time from eternity, and on which souls are 
the ships of passage, we could freight these spiritual vessels with 
messages of love to that " bourne from whicli no traveler returns! " 
We w'ould seud letters fragrant with the supremest affections of the 
human soul. We would send bouquets of flowers as beautiful as 
those that first a|)peared in the garden of Paradise. But we simply 
grasp the air and find our hands empty. We look at the sea and 
find it is shoreless. We speak to the departing messenger and find 
that to his hands we can consign no commission. My dear, de- 
parted friend, let me exjjress in the language of one of the world's 
greatest men ami sweetest poets my own sentiments : 

Faru thee well, oh, tboii to memory dear, 

By our blessiugs lulled to slumbers sweet; 
.Sleep ou caluily in thy prison drear, 

Sleep ou calmly till again we meet. 

Till the loud almighty trutniiet sounds, 

Echoing through these coriise-eucumliered hills; 

Till God's storm-wind, bursting through the bounds 
Placed by Death, with life those corpses tills. 

Till, imjiroguate with Jehovah's blast, 
Graves bring forth and at His menace dread, 

In the smoke of planets melting fast. 

Once again the tombs give up their dead. 



48 /-//•'/•' .i\ii <n.ii;.i(Ti:i; tty in i)/.i:y c. ii.ish/:/./.. 

What a woiiilerf'iil siji'lit wo sliall simie time see wlien tlie gi-eat 
of" the earth are all gathered there; when the laurels of victory and 
the cypress of defeat are intertwined without the .slighte.st regret. 
In the sweeter time to eome, when the blossoms all bloom and the 
iuKrmitics of this life Im forgotten, we will realize that the soul is 
the jewel of all tilings, and that the eireumstanees which encompass 
us h(!re simply tend to brighten and burnish it; that the t)fBce of 
the shadow is to intensify the sunlight. And if there is ultimately 
to be a ])erfectibility of the human soul, we will l)e across the river 
what we might have been here. 

Oh, what is death but a rebirth into that larger life where we go 
on forever I Who can measure the compass of our existence? \\'e 
cniue here without our consent, and depart without being consulted. 

Is it possible that our rest is to come in the bosom of the planets 
that illumine the sky? Are we to realize ultimately that the sun 
which warms the earth with its heat and makes the grass grow in 
its vigor and greenness is but a type of the Heavenly Father who 
counts the number of our hairs and notes the dropping of a sparrow ? 
These, indeed, are puzzling questions, and no man can solve either 
the riddle of life or death. The pagan religion to the dying had 
no terrors. The intelligent thought of to-day in contemplating 
death brings no dismay to thoughtful souls. Once we were un- 
known and unincarnatcd, and all of us came into this world in- 
dicating our appearance with a cry. Our mothers, who hold the 
doorway of life, love us when we come and weep when we go out. 

Does not the mystery of life incre;>se w^ith every thought touching 
it*i conditions? How anxiously we stand on the shore of this ocean, 
and lift our eves to the heavens above us, and clasp our hands and 
ask, "^yheu will the departed return?" Yet it is all in vain and 
hopeless. Over the ripj)les of this boundless sea there is no rustle 
of air that brings us a response: 

We loug for the touch of a vauished hand, 
And the souud of a voice that is still. 

(Aui it be possible that the strong attractions of this life by wav 
of personal friendships are but the reproduction of loves and atfec- 



JlJDiaCSS or Ml!. liEhFOltl), OF COLORADO. 49 

tioiis that existed in tiic ;iii'es iiefiti-e when our spiritual iiicasenients 

^were entirely different".' On tiiis siibjeet I can think of nothing 
sweeter or better than the poem of Colonel Joyce, entitled " Un- 
known," which I repeat: 

I gazed on tlie l)alie at its mother's breast, 

And asked for the secret of life and rest; 

It turned with a smile that was sad and lone, 

And ninrmnred in dieaininf;, "llnknown, unknown.'' 

I challenged the yonth so hold and so hrave 

To tell me the tale of the lonely grave. 

But he sung of iileasnro in innsical tone. 

And his echoing voice replied, "Unknown, unknown." 

Then I questioned the gray-haired uiaa of years, 
W4iose face was furrowed with thought and tears, 
And he patised in his race to simply groan 
The sonl-chilliug words, "Unknown, unknown. " 

I asked the lover, the poet, and sage 

In every clime and every age. 

To tell nie the truth, and candidly own 

If, after death, 'tis all unknown, unknown? 

I soared like the lark to the boundless sky. 
Sighed in my .soul for the how and the why ; 
The angels were singing and, just had flown, 
I heard but the I'clio, " Unknown, unkiuiwn." 

We come like the dew-drops and go like flie mist. 
As frail .as a leaf by autumn's winds kissed ; 
Fading away like the ro.sesof June, 
Wishing and waiting to meet the unknown. 

Nature, oh! Nature, the God I adore. 
There's light in thy realm, I ask for no more ; 
From the seed to the fruit all things are grown. 
Yet, while we know this, the cause is uukuowu, 

Wben matter aud mind are perished and lost. 
And all that we see into chaos is tossed ; 
From nothing to nothing we pass out alone. 
Like a flash or an echo — "Unknown, unknown." 
H. Mis. 4C 4 



50 LIFE AND (HAHACTFJ! UF DV1>LEY C. HASKELL. 

^\'e grope in tliu dark and iiKjuirc wliv we Iuivl- been Lmuglit 
here, and we vainly stndy wliat is to be the end of'onr being, and 
whether we shall attain a deiinite objeet or miss it altogether. Ten- 
nyson in the following lines lias e.\[)ressed the despair and tiie lioj)e 
of every hnnian soul: 

lii'lidld, wu know not aii.vt liiiij;-; 

I cau but trust that good shall iall 

At last — far otf — at last, to all, 
And every winter olianjje to spring. 

iSornns my dream; Imt what am I? 

An intantcryiiig in the night; 

An infant erying for the light; 
And with no langnage but a cry. 

Oh, liow the great of this earth, from tlie times of Zoroaster and 
Christ to those of Swcdenborg and Wesley, have .struggled to solve 
the problem, " What am I, and why am I?" No .satisfactory 
solution has been found. Descartes summed up his philosophy by 
declaring, "I think, therefore I am." Seneca, staggering in the 
dark, shouted out, " If only one might have a guide to truth." 
" We must wait," Plato deelain^d, " for one, be it a God or God-in- 
spired man, to teacli us our religious duty." .\nd C'lesar declared 
in the Roman Senate that there was no God and that tiie future 
was more than a blank. The world, after all, must rest on its 
growing faith, and as man gets better aud sweeter and more vir- 
tuous in his life his god a.ssumes these attril)utes, just as the Grecian 
gods took on the character imparted to them by tiie Athenians. It 
w'ould .seem to me that in tiie mazes of this life we might receive at 
least an occasional revelation that would i|niet dur anxieties and 
give our souls actual assurances of a positive immortality. 

Eut if there be a personal God we («nnot jiulge of the wisdom 
of his designs until we know the end he seeks to accomplish. I 
remember once to have stood by the side of a loom where they 
wei'e weaving Brussels carpet. The design of the weaver was un- 
known, and the figure but half completed. I said there was too 
much black and too little white, too much pink and too little yel- 
low. Turning to me, a lady remarked, " witiiout knowing the 



ADDRESS Of MR llAMtACK, OF KAXSAS. 51 

design your criticism i.s unjust." This weaver but typifies the 
Ahuighty weaver, who lias all our human souls like so mauy threads 
on His infinite loom, and when the carpet that he is making is 
spread on the floor of eternity and illuminated by the light of His 
eountenauce, it will be found that there is not one thread of white 
too luucii luir of I)lnck ton little. 



Address of Mr. Hanback, of Kansas. 

Mr. SrEAKER: More than si.xteen years ago two towns in my 
State of Kansas were arrayed against each other upon a ijuestion 
of small import to tiie world, l)ut at that time of much impor- 
tance to those two young mnnicij)alities of the young Couunon- 
wealth. A thousan<l people gathered there upon the open plain 
to witness eighteen young and stalwart men engaged in a toiitest 
at base-ball, and of that number, briglit and Ijravc, stood Didley 
C. Ha.skell, the chief of his nine. 

And there for the first time I met him in tliat friendly conflict. 
From thence on \vc gi'cw in aci|iiaint.'iiie(' which rij)cncd into fricnd- 
shi|) sU(.'li as few men enjoy In this wdi'ld. I knew him in the 
pride of his manhood, when tlir shadows \\cr<' falling far behind 
his iiark, and when his eye was briglit with hope as he looked 
into tile future. 1 knew him when lie w:is struggling in adver- 
sity, while engaged in a law t'lil and honorable calling in merchan- 
dise in his city, when bankruptcy, long dcfl-rred, stared him in 
the face, and at last ti'U u]>oi] him and blighted his business pros- 
pects and darkened his home. Hut in that hour the face of that 
man was sublime, serene, and pcrfeet, because iiis hands were as 
wiiite as the snow which fell upon his grave that drear Decem- 
ber day, when the citizens standing around gave their blessing 
and their tears to him and to his. 

He was not succe.ssful in a business point of view. His life 
was created for another purpose, and the time came when he was 
lifted out of the slough of despond into which he had been thrown. 



52 LIFE AND VllAl;ACTEI! OF DUDLEY C. HASKELL. 

He was sent to the legislature of liis State, and tlieu fortln' first 
time he stoml a master aniduii- men. With one accord and witii 
unanimous voici' of his ])arty he was selected to j)reside over the 
deliberations of that body; an<l it is to his high credit, and was 
always a matter of pride with him, tiiat no decision he made during 
his term of office as speaker was reversed by the house. He weiit 
down from his high place receiving tlie jilaudits of all meu, whether 
they differed from him or not on the jjolitical questions of the day. 

In the summer of LSTC, after a close contest in the Congres- 
sional convention of his district, lie was chosen as the nominee of 
the Republican party. Against him in the contest was pitted a 
man who was known witii distinguished credit to himself in that 
State; a man coming fresh from the Halls of Congress, who had 
acquitted himself honorably and creditably in that capacity, and 
who bore upon his party ensign not the name of Rejiublican, but 
that of Democrat. He was a man well known and respected, 
who bore a proud name among the people whom he had served; 
a man whose counsels were judicious and wise, and who had pre- 
sided as a judge in a district composed of a large portion of that 
Congressional district for many years. This was the man with 
whom the young candidate for the suffrages of the people was to 
lock hands in a contest that would be to the death. 

I remember well the day when the ensign of victory floated over 
the head of Dudley Haskki.l, and his future was assured. Five 
thousand people were assembled at Olathe in his district. His op- 
ponent spoke, and others spoke ; general debate was in progress, 
and yet Haskell was not there. And I remember the sneer that 
went forth as they said he did not dare to come. But he was com- 
ing ; he was coming by a slow freight train, for come he would, and 
there was no other train available. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon a 
team driven madly on came up, and Haskell, covered with dust and 
smoke, leaped upon the platform ready to grapple with his antag- 
onist. The victory for a while had seemed doubtful; it had wav- 
ered and pointed the other way, but in' a moment all was changed. 
Throwing his coat aside, Haskell stood forth in the presence of 



JDDI}j;SS OF MH. 1/ AX HACK, UF KANSAS. 53 

tlie throng in all his niagnificciit inaiilxidd to present liis powerful 
views of the great questions of tiie day to the expectant crowd. I 
tell you when the contest was over, when the debate was done, the 
future of that man was assured, the future of the contest in that 
district W'as assured, and all men yielded to that opinion. 

C'allcd l)v the voice of the people of tiiat district to come here as 
their Ivepresentativc in tliis House, he came at their behest, although 
deathly sick, grasping for a fresh hold on life, almost then gone; 
and yet he was raised up under the proxidcnce of God to become 
the honor of the State and the honor of all the nation, entitled to 
its love and respect. 

Mr. Speaker, I have but few woi'ds more to say of our dead 
friend. T was with him in every contest he bad in ids <listri('t. 
We traveled together side by side. We communed together upon 
the great questions that were to be presented, u|)oii the political 
condition of the country, the legislation that was demanded ; and 
vet, in all the days and nights I was with him, I never heard him 
sav an unkind word of any living man. His heart was spotless 
anil void of offense toward his t'ellow-meu. Abuse and misrepre- 
sentation he could trample upnn and dety, wliile still maintaining 
the jHirity of his manhood ; and it was the white mantle of love 
which enwrapped him as he lay dead in his home here in Washing- 
ton. It was the same white mantle of love that enfolded him as 
we went with his dead body, witii swiftly-moving pace, to Lawrence, 
there to be greeted with lamentations, sighs, and tears by thousands 
of his old acquaintances, constituents, and friends, over the loss 
that had liefallen them, and I thought as I stood there and witnessed 
their grief that many of them had come to know perhaps for the 
first time that a great man had fallen in Israel. 

There is no question in my mind, Mr. Speaker, as to where his 
ship is floating to-day. There is no cpiestion in my mind as to 
what harbor it has entered with fluttering sails, and flag floating 
transcendently beautiful. I know, as you know, as we all know — 
for it is emblazoned in our hearts — that we shall live again. The 
men who stood witli the Hepuiilic, wiio fonglit for it, who made it, 



54 LIFE AND CnARACriCR OF DUDLEY C. JIASKELL. 

aii<l iiiaiiitaiiieil it, the men wIki died at Ijexinj^ton, and tlinse wlio 
died with the last fsimt that was fired at the iicart of tiie natiim, 
are livint;- tn-day. 

Ti)-ila.v o'er our Ihij; they arc keei)iii'i; 

As faithful a guard as of yore. 
No sentinel spirit is slee])ing, 

That pickets the line of the shore. 
The voices of music are rint;'"}? 

In accents of sweetness aliroad ; 
The sanctified army i» singing 

The praise of America's God ! 

Friend of my early days, eomijanidn, t-ounselor, I greet thee; I 
greet thee ; I greet thee ! 



Address of Mr. Pettibone, of Tennessee. 

Mr. Speakicii : T ask the indulgcnee cif the House for a few 
moments while I, too, join my voiee with those of his older asso- 
ciates upon this floor to add my testimony in giving eni])hasis to 
the sterling and manly (-haraeter of Diidi.ky Haskell. 

My oftering of eulogy is very hricf and linnd)le, hut it eertainlv 
is heartfelt. Others who knew him Inngci- and mure intimatelv 
than T have given us theiletails of iiis life's sfory. What ] knew 
ahont him I learnetl mostly hy elose oliservation while he was with 
us and of ns. I first knew him in the Union Army. Like 
myself and all our comrades, he was tiien a young Vdhniteer. It 
was during what we of the old "Army nf the Frontier " called the 
Prairie Grove campaign. 

Bright, active, brave, and handsome, in the full glory and blush 
of his early and s[)lendi(l manhood, \ seem to see him now as I saw 
him then, when in pride and honor and heart's devotion he wore 
unsoiled his country's uniform of l)lue. 

It was evident to his comrades in thdse old days, as it was later 



ADDHESS OF .V/i'. r/CTI IliOXE, OF TFNXESSEE. 55 

to tliosc M-lio knew him in tliis (!li;unber, tliat he had courage and 
intciii-itv in liis licart, as iir ciTtainly had power on his brow. 

I next met him on tliis tloor in tiie first days of the Forty-seventh 
Congress. He impressed me always as few men ever did ; and as 
the niontlis wore away elose observation eonvinccd me tliat not only 
were his intellections keen, not only wore iiis powers great, but 
that his heart was pure, and his purposes patriotic aud as stainless 
as a star. 

IbiW he labdred during all of the last session only those can 
know who, like my iViend from Pennsylvania [Mr. Keli.Ey], saw 
him as, day bv dav, he did a Titan's work while we shared in iiis 
hopes, convictions^ and anxieties. 

I waive the question whether or not he was right. I believe he 
was. Yet I sincerely believe he sacrificed his life to the cflnscien- 
tious discliarge of <1uty as he understood it, aud from sheer over- 
work he died in tiie stern discharge of duty ! Can eulogy say more 
than that ? 

He believed, with the iaith that makes heroes and martyrs, that 
it is alike wise and patriotic- to save tiie American markets for the 
handiwork and wares of American workmen, in order that comfort 
and plenty mav alwavs lill and bless American homes. He l)e- 
lieved that the laborer is worthy of his hire, and that "Peace hath 
her victories no l(>ss i-eiiowned than War." 

l>ut, sir, he is drad I 'i'he Commonwealth that honore<l him, as 
he in his integrity eertainlv served and honored her, now holds all 
that is mortal of our fViend. His career on earth is entled, as all 
careers must end! To his wid<iw and now fatherless children lie 
has left a legacy rich in (he ncord of a noble life and a spotless 
name! "He was born; he died." That, in brief, is the history 
of man I 

]>ut, sir, our friend was a most manly man, because lie was a 
Ciiristian man. Ife always was ready to spend, and be spent in 
the cause of truth, justice, humanity — and that surely is the cause 
of Christ! 

As I tliink of him in the plenitude of his power on this floor 



56 LIFE AND CHAHACTEI! OF DUDLEY C. HASKELL. 

as a debater and as a law-maker, and rcineniher that lie is gone, the 
lines of Barry Cornwall rise unbidden to memory: 

Day dawned ! Within a curtained roimi, 
Filled to faiiitness with ]ierfnnie, 
A lady lay at i)oint of doom. 

Day closed! A child had seen the li^lit ; 
But for that lady, fair and bright. 
She slnuihered iu unending night. 

SpringH rose! And by her grave so gn'<'n 
A little boy, with thoughtful mien, 
On summer eves was ofteu seen. 

Years passed! He grew in manly grace, 
He mingled in the world's rough race. 
And won himself a lofty place. 

And then he died. Behold before ye 
Humanity's poor sum and story. 
Life, ileath, and all there is of glory! 

Sir, within tiie saered j)reeinets of that desolate iiome in Kansas I 
woidd uot presume to enter an uninvited and an unknown guest. 
To the widow in her weeds, whom I never saw, I ean onlv say, Look 
tij)! Dear old ^^'llittier has, in his desolation, jienned these lines; 

And yet, dear heart ! remembering thee, 
Am I not richer than of old? 
Safe in thy innuortality, 
What change can reach the we;ilth I bold .' 
What chance can mar the pearl and gold 
Thy love hath left in trust with nie ? 
And while in life's late afternoon. 
Where cool and long the shadows grow, 
I walk to meet the night, which .soon 
Shall shape and shadow overflow, 
I cannot feel that thou art far. 
Since near at need the angels are. 
And when the sunset gates unbal-, 
Shall I not see thee waiting stand. 
Ami white against the Evening Star, 
The welcome of thy beckoning hand? 



ADDRESS OF Ml!. PEHKIXS, Ol' K.IXSJS. hi 



Address of Mr. Perkins, of Kansas. 

Mr. Si'KAKEK: On the 23(1 tluy of Maivli, 1842, Diulev 
Cii.\SE Haskell was hm-n in the (iiiiet village of Springtield, in 
the State of Vermont, and removing with his parents to the Ter- 
ritorv of Kansas when l)ut thirteen years old, he grew into a 
strong, sturdy, athletic, vigorous man, and seven years ago, with 
loniT strides and strong arras, he entered this Chamber to a.ssume 
the duties and take upon himself the responsiliilities of a legislator 
for this nation. 

How ablv he performed those duties and iiow conscientiously he 
discharged those responsibilities has been attested here to-day; and 
now, when he should have been but in the prime of life and in the 
full vigor of Ids intellect and manhood — when, as life is ordinarily 
allotted to man, he should have been in his seat looking with con- 
scientious solicitude after the interests of his constituents and the 
well-l)eing of his country — the busy duties of this House are sus- 
].en<l(d, the gavel of the Speaker is laid aside, and the acrimonious 
del)ate is hushed tliat all may certify to tlic worth and honor of the 
departed, and that some may laurel his grave with, a rhetorical 
offering of sympathy and affection. 

That grim me.ssengcr which comes but once to man halted Mr. 
Haskell as he was entering Congre.ss for the fourth consecutive 
term, and bade him give up his duties, set aside his aspirations, 
foreo-o his interests, bid farewell to friends and loved ones, quit his 
scenes of home and kindred, and follow him to that silent bourne 
from which none are permitted to return to tell us of the departed. 
Why this was none can tell. Why one so young, so dev( ted to 
duty, so strong and athletic, so capable of work and accomplishing 
good, so conscientious and fearless in the denunciation of wrong 
mul in the advocacy of what he believed to be right, so ambitious 
and desirous of aiding his country and of doing that which would 
contribute to the happiness of man, should be stricken down and 



58 I'll'I-^ -'V CUAUACTEU OF DUDLEY C. HASKELL. 

his |io\vt'rs <l{.>.stroyc(l tlius early in iiis pilgriiuage none can tell ; 
and why (lie final sununon.s .slionkl have been served as he was at 
the vcstihule of his nsefnlness and but rapidly elinibing to the apex 
of his piiwc r and opportunity is one of the insoluble jiroblcins of 
mortal life. J>ut thus it is and ever [latli been. 

Going to Kansas when but thirteen years of age, from the green 
hills and liberty-loving people of Veriuont, he became at once in- 
terested and aroused for free government on the ])lains of his uewlv- 
ado])ted home, and the aggressions of the slave jiowcr and the 
efforts of the national administration to fasten African bondage 
upon the p('o])lr of the new Territory aroused the velienicnt o]ipo- 
sitioii of his inij)aHsioned nature and eall(Ml forth every resistance 
his young but enthusiastic teniperaiuent could command. He wit- 
nessed the violence and turbulence of that contest, and love for 
freedom and hatred of slavery and human bondage grew into every 
muscle and tibci of his lieing and became a constituent part of his 
manhood, and when (hat contest was followed by war against his 
country ; when States wlii're shooting from their politicid orbits 
like erratic meteors from the sky; when the vvild alarm of war was 
sound(^d and the drum-l)eat was marshaling tli<' loyal legions to 
stay the fratricidal hands rai.sed for the overthi-ow of our Gov- 
ernment, Din)Li;Y C. H.\SKKLL tendered his services to his 
country, and in an luunble and subordinate capacity did what he 
could to nationalize liberty, extirpate slavery, and preserve his 
Country. 

])Ut all those da\'s of mingled light and shadow, of ho])cs and 
fears, of gn.'at virtues and great sins are gone, and how our hearts 
should overrun with gratitude that the nation needs no more sai'ri- 
ficcs for such a conflict, Imt asks now for a coiumon brotherhood, 
moved by ("hristian charity and bound together and cemented by 
good deeds. 

And perhaps in years not far away the vanc|nished — the South 
herself — when Am- shall look with ]iride upon her <'nlargcd cities 
and new industries, and upon her increased millions, rich, free, and 
ha|ii)y, as her sky is gentle, blue, and propitious, will count among 
her friends (hose who wore the bine and seemed to her such reclv- 



ADDnrSS OF ME. rURKIXS, OF KAXSAS. 59 

less cncfliics a.< tl.oy stni^lfl to j.!-. serve the Government for 
freedom anil to break the chains that held the bondsman as a shive. 
When Mr. Haskell qnit the service of his country in tlie field 
he went to Williston's Seminary, at Easthami)ton, Mass., to con- 
tinue his education, and concluded it by a scientific course at Yale. 
In December, 1865, he was married at Stockbridgc, Berkshire 
County, Massachusetts, to Miss Hattic Kelsey, au accomplished 
and cuUured descendant of Cotton Mather, who with two little f,nrls 
are left to survive him. 

Almost immediately after he was mariied Mr. Haskell re- 
turned to ills prairie home and engaged in business, but he took a 
deep interest in local concerns and interests, and in those social, 
commercial, and political problems whieii lay at the foundation of 
our Government, and being a clear thinker, a ready and aggressive 
debater, and a courteous and intelligent controversialist, it was not 
long until he found himself in the front rank of local polities, and 
ill 1S72 he was elected to the legislature of his State. 

I'.ut hi- politi.al an.l business experiences have been given by 
mv eollea>;ue and I will not enlarge upon them. His labors, his 
growth, his accomplishments as a member of the Forty-fifth, 
Fortv-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses is known to many of 
von, and iia< been roiniiiciited upon to-day. Of temperate iuii)its, 
of untiring industry, an.l possessing a s]>lendid i)hysieal org:aniza- 
tiou, and moved by an iionorablo ambition to excel, he did not 
realize there was a limit to his powers of endurance, or to ids 
plivsital capacity for work, and being poor he attempted almost 
unaidrd to do tliat whieii no memiier of tiiis Cliamlwr can do and 
liv, — to nm all ihe errands and look after the wants and corre- 
spondence of a very large and exacting constitueiu-y, and yet per- 
form in a competent and thorougidy intelligent manner the de- 
manding and multitudinous duties of this House, and tiie ciiair of 
DtDLEV C. Haskell is vacant to-day and his body moldering 
in sepulchral dust from overwork; crusiied i)y the exacting de- 
mands and labor of his position as was tiie Trojan priest of Nep- 
tune, Laocoon, and iiis cliildren crushed by the serpents of Tenedos. 
Tlirongs gatlicred in the courts of Hypatia discussing "Wliat 



60 LIFE AXD CUAllACTEIl OF DVDLET C. HASKELL. 

am I, an.l whence came I?" an.l InMu tliat Grcrian ciiltm-e to the 
present the generations have (h'sconrs,.! that more insenitil.le ques- 
tion still, " Whither go I ?" 

Hut not so with him whom we moui-u to-dav. 
I'.oi^n of Christian parents, his convictions were forme.l i„ carlv 
years, and strengthened with his growth. He believ.d in the car- 
penter of Nazareth, in the divinity of Christ, in the iuun.utalitv 
of the soul, in the resurrection and the better lit;.. 'J\, iii„i the 
accomplishments of man, the monumental glories we have won, 
were not given to or .secured by a race of descendants who trace 
their genealogy to gibbering .specimens (,f the animal kingdom 
or to the lower .strata of animal life; hut to beings "little less 
than the angels," who shall find incorruption and"" immortality, 
wIh^u the corru].tible, mortal nature is laid aside, wearv and ex- 
hausted in the work of life. Mr. Haskell was but little given 
to abstractions and speculations— to him practice was worth more 
than theory, and in the investigation and consideration of the 
economic questions of the day he prefei-red to a.scertain and heed 
results rather than indulge in theorizing an.l i)hih)sophical ,s],ecu- 
lation regardless of consequences. 

As has been already said he possessed a fine physique, an,] when 
he first entered this Chamber he was the picture of heallh and 
phy.sical vigor. As was eloquently said of hini l,v his pastor in 
this city in the brief exerci.ses had „n the mornhio- the ,;,rtn,r 
moved for his Western home, "he was six feet three inches tall, but 
every inch a man." 

Springing from the masses, his sympathies were with the labor- 
ing jXMjple, and his heart beat responsive to their importunities; 
but for all he only desired that which was right, and in all the 
relations of life, as day-laborer, as .soldier, as scholar, as business 
man, as politician, as statesman, he stood by Jiis convictions, and 
died as he had lived— an honest man. How tersely he expressed 
this characteristic of his life when, in almost the la,st conversation 
he had with his devoted friend, Hon. Ed. R. Smith, of Kansas, 
who had been clerk of the Committee on Indian Affairs— the Com- 



JDDliESS or Mil. rEHEIXS, OF K.tXSJS. 61 

niittue of which Mr. Haskell had been eli;iiniian — lie said, " I tell 
vou, Ed., it pavs to he honest, and I thank God my hands are 
dean." P>ut it was as hnsband and tiitiier that Mr. Haskell 
excelled. Kind and devoted, it was at the family hearthstone with 
wife and little ones that he shone resplendent. There he should 
have been seen and known to have been fully appreciated. There 
his feelings were full of tenderness and his face laughed as with 
the jovs of early life, " when the days are all sunny and the months 
all June;" and there hearts throb for him that now must bleed 
until they too are summoned to share witli iiim the ecstacies of a 
better land. 

But I will not rend the veil and trespass upon the sanctity of 
that beautiful home-life except to call your attention to the weep- 
ing wife and desolate children as they sit in the ])rairie home he 
loved so well, cherishing the ashes of the departed, and weejiing 
for him who comes not. How inexpressibly sad is their condition 
in weeds and mourning these cheerless days of winter when con- 
trasted with that of October last, when they left home clieerful, 
buovant, lK)])eful, happy, ex[)ecting that with a little rest and re- 
laxation in the hills of New England the bloom of health would 
return to his cheeks and elasticity to his steps, and they would 
witness him, as he grew in strength and usefulness during this ses- 
sion of Congress, gaining new laurels, achieving new triumphs, 
and adding new honors to his already distinguished name. 

For six years I, iw common with the people of the second dis- 
trict of Kansas, was honored by our Representative upon the floor 
of this House; and as a constituent who knew him well, who 
respected his integrity and worth, who admired his capacity and 
.sincerity, who sympathized with him in liis j)olitical convictions 
and affiliations, and who competed with him for the honor of repre- 
senting tiie district in the convention in which he was first nomi- 
nated for Congress, I, in conclusion of these exercises, jiay this 
feel)le tribute to his worth, with a tear of sympathy and regret at 
our irrei)aral>le loss. 



62 /-//'A' .l.\]> ClIAHACTEI! UF DUJJLFV (J. HASKELL. 



Address of Mr. Ingalls, of Kansas. 

Mr. I'liEsiDENT: Dudley Chase Haskell was lineally and l>y 
nature a Puritan. Had liu lived in that spleiidiil ('[)ik'1i of Eiii;lisli 
history when the race to whicli we beh)ng roai'hed its nicri<lian ; 
wlieu genius culminated in Siiakespeare, reason in Bacon, heroism 
in Raleigh, courtesy in Sydney, loveof liberty in Hampden, military 
and civic leadership in Oliver Cromwell; he would, like his an- 
cestors, have exiled himself from home, I'ricnds, ])ossessious, crossed 
the implacable seas, and laid in the savage solitudes of an empty 
continent the foundations of a Christian commonwealth, "for the 
common good, for the protection, safety, pi'os])erity. and liaj)piness 
of the people, and not for the prolit, honor, or jirivate interest of 
any one man, family, or class of men ;" a stati' Imiided upon the 
Bible as its chief corner-stone, and having for the charter of its 
liberties the Golden Rule. 

No political experiment ever appeared less tormidable at tiie out- 
set than the colonization of Mtissachusetts Bay, but none ever had 
such momentous, such far-reaching consequences. The ideas (jf 
those fugitives from intolerance and proscription possesseil incon- 
ceivable energy. The mind of man, released from tiie bondage of 
caste and precedent, conscious at last of its powers, has achieved re- 
sults in letters, in science, in war, in government, which are not 
less IX revelation than a pro])hecy. 

The feeble colonists lingered tor awliile by the coast, wresting 
scanty subsistence from the sterile soil and the stormy sea; but mov- 
ing slowly westward, the great column in two centuries has crossed 
thecontinent, overcoming all obstacles, conquering all adversaries, till 
at last, among fifty million ])eople imder self-government, fi'cedom 
is universal, civil and political equality is the fundamental law, the 
safety of life, the preservation of liberty, the protection of property 
are efiectually guaranteed, the means of education are diffused as 
widely as the desire to know, and the opportunities llir luqipiness 
are commensurate with the capacity to enjoy. 



.il)l)l;ESt< OF MR. lyUALI.S, OF KAXSAS. 63 

None ol'tliu traits and attribiitt's, ])liysifal, iiitelludiial, or moral, 
wliich distiiifriiislied tlie t)rigiiial eniigrant.s to New England were 
wanting iu INIr. ITaskei.i,, and in his relations to the ])olities and 
society of" his State and the nation lie exhibited the same (jnalities 
whieh eharacterized his jirogenitors two hundred and fifty vears 
ago. Could he haveassumed the gai'l) and votment nf tlial am-icnt 
time, his great stature, the sedate dignity nl' his demeanor, his 
stately presence, an aspect of autliority, and the serious gravity nf 
his features would haye rendered him the striking semblance of a 
worshipful magistrate of the colonial period. 

To api)!ause or censure for its own .-akc he was stoically indit- 
fci-ent. There was no insensibility to fame or blame in his nature, 
but he ])ref'crrcd tlii' approval of his conscience to the a]i])robation 
of mankind. lie adhered -tremioiisly to unpopidar friends, to his 
own deti'iment, rather than incur suspicion of personal tlisloyalty. 
H(^ advocated unpopular doctrines which connnandcd the assent of 
his reason or his conscience, rather than gain votes by silence or 
dujilicity. Conscience, which is said to make cowards of us all, 
made no coward of him ; it made him courageous rather, and dar- 
ingly aggressive and defiant intellectually in his support of princi- 
j)les which he considered essential to the well-being of the people. 
He l)elie\ed in the appeal of truth to time, and aspired to be a real 
leader of <i[)inion rather than to obtain the chea]) and casual ap- 
plause whiili reward the demagogue, the imjwstor, and the char- 
latan. 

Politics and religion are popularly supposed to lie incompatible. 
So many assertions must be denied, so main' purposes must be con- 
cealed, so many calumnies must be refuted, so many temptations 
must be resisted, that the most riuid and tvnsorious moralists 
are disposed to mitigate the severity of judgment; l)Ut no such for- 
bearance was re(piired for Haskell. Hi' did not deny bis [Master. 
He bore his religion with him in every presence, in all contests. 
He was from earliest youth devout, revt'rent, chaste, pure-in spirit, 
active in all work for the elevation of society. Everywhere and 
in all directions his influence was beneficent and ennobling. The 
world was better for his having lived, and his death \vas a sub- 



64 '-I'^E ASD CH.Ih ,■ OF DUDLEY C. HASKELL. 

traetiiin f'ri)iii tlic iiKiral iurrcs wliidi uphold and sustain uian- 
kind. 

Ho came to Wasliiugtou to take liis scat as a Representative in 
the Forty-fifth Congress at, the special session in Uctobcr, 1877. 
He was immediately attacked by a disease from which few recover, 
and which his physicians considered mortal. My apprehensions 
increased as he rapidly declined from day to day, till I was sum- 
moned to his bedside one morning at daylight, and found that he 
had sunk into unconsciousness, from which he could not be roused. 
Before noon he rallied sufficiently to converse, and was told by tlie 
physicians that if his affairs required attention he had better ar- 
range them before evening, as he might sink into sleep from which 
he would not wake. He recognized the gravity of the situation 
and asked if there was no hope. They thonglit there was none, 
but told him he had a chance for life. He replied : "I will take 
that chance. Do your duty and I will do mine." The struggle 
was long and doubtful, but skill and courage triumphed for a time 
over his malady, though he never seemed to me to be wiioUy re- 
stored to his pristine strength and vigor. He blanciied rapidly 
and looked pallid and haggard at times, as though his vital forces 
were well-nigh spent. But I mention the incident to show the 
metal of which the man was made. He sometimes spoke of that 
awful hour, of the solemnity with which he contemplated the dark 
abyss, and of the consolation aifbrded by faith and hope. And yet 
his great work was done in th(,' succeeding six years, after he had 
risen almost from the dead. 

He entered public life without professional training or sjiccial 
discipline. But he had indomitable perseverance, energy, deter- 
mination to excel, and gradually toiled upward, amid many dis- 
couragements, till at the close of the Forty-seventh Congress he had 
fairly won his place in tln' front rank of thought and debate, espe- 
cially upon economic ipiestions, and could reasonably anticipate a 
broad career of increasing influence and national renown. 

His oratory was energetic and forcible, but without decoration. 
He indulged in none of the ornaments of discourse, quotation, 
anecdote, wit, humor, fancy, badinage, or repartee. His weapon 



JDDKKSS OF MI!. D.linCS. or MASSACHUSETTS. 65 

was the broad-sword, not the rapier. He dealt in facts, in figures, 
in statistics, in arguments and deductions. He wa.s a diligent, 
patient student, with tliat liiglier gift than genius, the capacity for 
assiduous and persistent labor, without which the most brilliant 
powers, after brief and fitful corruscatiou, uselessly expire. He 
did nothing at random. Tiiere was no diffusion in his career. He 
was not distracted by pleasure, passion, sense, or appetite, from the 
path of duty. He traveled steadil}- along the beaten and dusty 
higliway without loitering, and so came at last to his journey's end. 
Tliat a life so pure, so valuable, so exemplary, rich in noble 
achievements, but far richer in every propiiecy of approaching dis- 
tinction, should be tlius abbreviated adds one more to the inscrut- 
able mysteries that perplex us iiere. He fell in the vestibule, and 
not at the altar. For his wife, children, and kindred, inconsolable 
in tiieir bereavement, for the friends wlio loved him, for the great 
constituency that laments him, for tlie State that he honored, for 
the nation that he served, he " siiould iiave died iureafter." 



Address of Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts. 

Mr. Presidknt : Tliere arc many ivasons why I may l)c par- 
doned for adding a few words to tlie abumlant ami fitting eulogy 
already paid to the rare qualities and great worth of iMr. Haskell. 
He was of New England stock, and those early years of mental 
molding and muscle-training in which all after-life is shapened 
were passed in my own State. And lie liad hardl}' essayed the 
IwttJe of life in that infant Commonwealth, to whose very exist- 
ence my own State had contributed so much that Kansas might 
almost lie said to have sprung from the loins of Massachusetts, 
when he returned and chose from among my own neighbors one 
of her daughters to walk with him that pathway which the untried 
future was opening up before him. 

By this transplanting the home life of Mr. Haskell, and 
largely his public career, became an illustration of the effect of that 
broader horizon and freer spirit of ])ioiieer experience upon the 

3. Mis. 46 5 



66 lll-Ii -lyi' CH.IIl.UTEl! OF DUDLEY C. HASKELL. 

.storii tcacliiiiiis ami tonj;li HImt wliich tlic I'liritaii .■mil (lie I'ili;rini 
wove into the cliaractcr and stainj)ed njxm tlie forcai-ni of each sou 
of'tlieirs wherever liis foot rested. Indeed, the town of Lawrence, 
where he hiiilt liis liome, and wliere lie now sleeps, does not bear a 
name more distinctly Now Enj^land than it does a character whose 
basis and ruling color were brought over in the Mayflower, and 
whic'h was, with precious little of latter-day j)olish or toning, taken 
bodily from Worcester and Middlesex in my own State to the 
sharp, quick, and bloody l)ut final conflict for freedom of body and 
soul in a new empire. A Ne\'rEnglander, loyal to the stifl' and 
stout (jualities ingrain in her nature, and proud of her aggressive 
spirit, (l(imin;i(cd by an iron will on whatever soil it sets its stake, 
reads [)lainly enough in the just tributes paid to the marked qual- 
ities of this decea.sed statesman of what stuff" this man was made 
when they recite the simple story that he was born in Vermont 
and was taken to Massachusetts in the first year of his life, and 
that a true descendant of the mingled colonies of Winthrop and 
and Carver took him, when only eleven, with one hand and a 
Sharps rifle with the other, and with the Bible and a spelliug- 
book in his pocket, led hi in forth to pitch his tent and assert his 
convictions on the plains of Kansas. 

The founders of that State were not only heroes but far-seeing 
statesmen also. They made imperishable history, written in blood 
and in the living light of i)rinciple and of a duty to posterity, once 
and forever to be discharged. The youth of whom we speak, with 
only two or three more years of parental teaching and guidance, 
was by the death of his father pushed out alone to further equip 
himself as best he could and stand upon his own feet, and by the 
strength of his own arm to hew his own way through life. And 
yet it was not his own way he was to hew, for he never succeeded 
in laying up riches as the world counts riches, but died poor. The 
life which was spared him was devoted to the pul)lic service. Here 
he planted and watered and reared and pruned, and those who 
come after him shall gather more wholesome fruit because he has 
lived. 

Mr. Haskell came into Congress a little more than six years 



JDDUKSS OF mi:. DAWIiS. OF MASSAVIIl SETTS. (.)7 

a!j;(>. Nuarly all iliat tiiiif tlie coiiiniittcc work wliichfcll tn luy lot 
here brougiil me into fr('i|iu'iit and inliiiiate ednsiiUatinii and co- 
opcration with liiin. I simhi caiiu^ to value his eoiiiisel and rely 
upon liis judgment. This intimacy ripined into the friendship and 
attachnieut of associates anil companions. In a common work 
devolved upon us hy the two Ilou.se.s respectively, it was our pleas- 
ure to find ourselves working in harmony, moved by a common 
purpose toward a single end. F^.-ist August he had accepted my 
invitation to aeeonipany aeonuuittee of this body charged with the 
duty of investigating certain phases of the Indian question among 
the Indians themselves. IJut failing health compelled him to tnru 
away from this duty to medical treatment in a distant State, and 
I never saw liini again. 

I mourn to-day the death of a friend I eoidd not spare, of a co- 
laborer who cannot be replaced, and I feel that those who need 
helj), of w'hatever race and however bound or east off, have lo.st a 
strong arm, ever stretched forth to succor; a clear intellect, ever 
alert, well balanced and directed to the wisest methe)ds, and a heart 
as big as his native hills, ever responsive to the appeal of the lowly. 
I see, but I cannot comprehend the mystery of a well-ordered life, 
full of earnestness and hii])e and promise, equipped for great exi- 
gencies and animated by lofty and noble aims, closed almost at the 
thresh(jld and before the work men would have him to do had 
hardly been begun. Verily, inscrntaliK' are the waysof Him who 
holds in His hands the destiny of individuals and of nations. 

And yet such a life, so brief, and to human sight so incomplete, 
is nevertheless of great value to the individual and the nation — to 
the individual as an examj)le and to the nation as a product. The 
liower he was able to wield and the good he had time to acconqilish 
were the reward of labor. Neither genius nor the graces of rhet- 
oric nor the fascinations of oratory made him the able debater he 
was, but patient and thorough investigation, tireless labor, gave him 
the ability to sift out the kernel and blow away the chaff. He 
uttered thoughts, not words, and they seemed to come up from a 
deep well, always full. He had convictions, and he dealt in noth- 
ing else. It seemed to him a duty to convince others, not to push 



68 'II'I': lyJJ CHAUACTER OF DUDLEY C. H ASK ELI- 

OT oarrv Hicin. Hence all he liail to say was arirmiKJiit, ol'ten 
naked, never ileeked or ailorned witli flowers (jf riietoric or tignres 
of speech. There was no ai'f or guile or stage elTeet in his ora- 
tory. It' he had no reason tor the taith that was in him he did 
not trouble others witii it. A clear, logical, and well-stored mind, 
an ardent temperament, and a profound conviction of the .sound- 
ness of his position, gave him great power in debate and placed 
him in the first rank of efficient and reliable leaders in the House. 

The whole biography of this man is .written in a single word — 
fidelity, the noblest word, after all, in the English language. It 
was true of him in every trust of his life. He was true to him- 
self and to all the feculties intrusted to him. He wrought with 
them all, and he strengthened and equipped them all for the best 
work attainable. He discharged to the uttermost every duty, pub- 
lic or private, and faithful to the end he died at his post. It is 
thought by some that the labor he undertook exceeded his .strength 
and hastened his death. If that be so, it would be worth far 
more, it seems to me, to leave the record of a life filleil up be- 
yond its measure and borne down with the weight of a too ex- 
hausting struggle than to leave an empty record of a life pro- 
longed into weary and purposeless days of fruitless existence. 

Mr. Haskell was a product of our institutions all too i-are in 
this day; when place and power in the public service are so often 
sought and maintained by questionable means and for unworthy 
ends. He was not born to politics or place, but to poverty and 
privation. He did not belong to the class set apart when they 
were born for the public service and educated in the school of 
politics and in theories and ideals of goverumeni. He came, in- 
.stead, of practical politics, and was himself a product of their 
needs. He became a builder, because he had himself handled the 
trowel and knew the quality of the mortar rather than the style 
of the architecture. Such men lay the foundations and build the 
walls, a little rough it may be, but still i-olid and abiding long 
after a more elegant finish shall have faded and perished. Our 
politics will suffer and our institutions will lose in rugged strength 
when such men fail of recognition and appreciation in the public 
service; 



.IDDRESS OF MR. COCKEllELL, OF MlgSOVJlI. 69 

Our friciul was in personal intercourse the true gentleman. 
Ilr liat(<l all iirt'tensc and was always what lie appeared to lie. If 
lie was angry lie left no one in doubt, and when lie extended his 
hand every one knew that it was warm. .\o one was ever put on 
his guard by a suspicions smile, or stood in fear of lurking hate. 
In .social and in private life, a.s well as in j)ublic, lie was direct, 
])lain, and simple, and won a place in our hearts made desolate bv 
this be reavcment. 

^ And now, Mr. President, we shall best profit from the le.sson 
taught us by the character wo have been contemplating if we turn 
from unavailing sorrow (ivcr the grave of a statesman we have 
lion<H'ed and a friend wc have lnvcil. and, cinsing up our ranks, 
])rcss on to the performance of that \\oik in which he labored so 
faithfully while he was with us. Miindfiil that the night soon 
(•(iiiietli ill wliieli no man can work. 



Address of Mr. CoCKERELL, of Missouri. 

Mr. Pkksidknt : It was my privilege to become accpiainted with 
Hon. Dt:Di,EY Cha.sk Haskell soon after entering upon his du- 
ties as a member of the Forty-fifth Congress, and to maintain this 
acquaintance during his Congressional career in the Forty-fifth, 
Forty-si.Kth, and Forth-seventh Congresses. 

It i.s to me a sad pleasure to join in these last memorial services 
and to unite with those who knew him more intimately in all his 
piirsonal and official relations in paying this last tribute to his mem- 
orv, his personal worth, and faithful, cxein])lary performance of all 
his official duties. 

Dudley Cha.sk Haskell was born March 23, 1842, at Spring- 
field, Vt., and was tl)e first member of the Forty-eighth Congres.s, 
summoned after the as.^cmbling, from the .scene.s of his earthlv 
labors to enter upon the realities of an unending e.xistence beyond 
the grave. He was the descendant of an old Saxon family located 
in Scotland, and migrating to Salem, Mass., at an early period in 
the settlement of that place, and in his bovhood attended the com- 



70 IJFE ANT) CITAHACTICI! OF lllIlLEY <\ HASKELL. 

moil scliDols in New England. Wlien tliirtcoii yoars okl, in 1855, 
his parents located near Lawrence, Kans., wliorc he attended the first 
common school taught in his town. In 1857 and 1858 he returned 
to Springfield, Vt., and attended scliool tlicro. 

Ivctnrning home, he was eniplciyed in the iidl of 1.S5S and win- 
ter of 1 S5'.l in a clothing store, and :icciiin|p;niic(l ins (•in|i]o\ci' to 
Colorado. Ill the fall of iSlil he was eiii])lo_vcd in the ti'ansporta- 
tion department of the I'liion Army in Kansas, and so continued 
in 18G2. 

In .Taiinary, 18(53, he attended school at Easthaiii})ton, ^lass., ajid 
in the fall of that year entered ujioii a special course at Yale Col- 
lege and took a course in a business college in Xew Haven in 1S(;4. 
Wiiile at Easthampton he joined the Congregational Chiiirh, of 
which he remained a consistent and exemplary member up to his 
death, and there also formed the acquaintance of Miss Hattie M. 
Kelsey, whom he married in the fall of 18^4, and then returned to 
Lawrence, Kans., and engaged in mercantile jmrsuits until deleted 
to the Forty-fifth Congress. 

In 1872, 1875, and 1876 he was a member of the State house 
of representatives, serving as speaker in the last term. In 1874 he 
was nominated for governoi- by the Temperance ])arty of his State, 
but declined. He was elected a nienibei- of the Forty-fifth Con- 
gress, and successively elected to the Forty-si.xth, Forty-seventh, 
and Forty-eighth Congresses. Such is a cursory review of his ac- 
tive outward life before the world. 

Success being the test of merit, surely there was real merit in Mr. 
Haskell. He hadjiot enjoyed the advantages and opportunities 
enjoyed by so many young men of our country, but he had care- 
fully improved every opportunity for the cultivation and develop- 
ment of a sound body and vigorous mind, inherited from his wor- 
thy parents. He was the architc^ct of his own fortune, and from 
the scanty materials within his grasp builded wisely and skillfully 
the attractive fabric of a noble, intellectual, moral, and physical 
manhood. He was ajrue gentlenian in the broadest sense. Life 
with him was real. He was of earnest purpose and strong convic- 
tions, sincere, steadfast, courageous, and |K'rsevering. 



JDDHESS OF MH. COCEEIiELL, OF MlgSOVlil. 71 

In Ilis private life ho was blameless and iiis cliaracter above re- 
jimac'li ; a true friend, a dutiful sdu, a devoted and faithful hus- 
band, a tender and affect iouate fatJier, a tiuo Christian, earnest and 
devoted to the eaiise and interests of iiis ehureh and Christianity. 
In his business life he was upright, industrious, and attentive. 

However engaged, he was a close student and diligent in the ac- 
quisition of information of a practical and useful character, such as 
woidd prepare him for the faithful and efficient performance of 
every duty and trust in life. 

xVs a legislator his integrity was not <juestioned. Hignified in 
his bearing, commanding in his ap])earance, with a (^lear voice, well 
informed, ready in debate, careful of the interests of his constitu- 
ents, and not otif'ensively partisan, lie was a model legislator. 

In the debates in the Forty-seventh ( 'ongivss he gained a na- 
tiimal reputation i)y tiie force ami al)ility with wiii<'li h<' presented 
the views of ilis |)arty on the taritf issues. 

To show the high estimate eutertaine<l tor him, 1 i-ead the fol- 
lowing editorial from the Washington Daily Post of December 17, 
l.S.s:5: 

Hon. DrDl.KV V. Haskkm.. of tin- .sccoml Kansas district, is the first mem- 
ber of till' iie\vly-ori;ani7,c(l Coiij;''<'ss to l)e, siimmoueil from his post of diitv 
by (U^atb. II.' bad lici'ii a iiu'iiibc-r of thi' Hoiisi^ for tbrw, siict-essive tcniis, 
always the li'adilitt I{c|ircsi'iit:ifi\ !■ IViun Iiis ciwiiStati', ami always (■(imiiiaiid- 
iii'i more tban ordinary irs|ii'c-t n|MiM tlir Mum-. In politics lie was a b'c-pnbli- 
can of tbi' strictest sect, lint not ottcnaivcly partisan. .\s a li's^islator be was 
practical and consciciitions, brinj;in^' to I lie snp\>ort of bis positions a wide 
raii;;c of intipriiiation, nndonblcd conran'c, and a careful reyard for the inter- 
ests of his eoiisfitueiits. lie hail yrcal aiiiliiliuii and tlie pioniise of a lonj;- 
life, but the liii;her aims of Ihe one perish with the other, and it is to be re- 
fireltcd that a record so honorable was not permitted to reach its I'lill-roinided 
completeness. 

I also read an eilitorial tVom the National Ri']iiililic:in of the same 
date : 

In tbe death of Hon. I). ('. IIaskki.I,, of Kansas, Ibe House loses one of its 
brightest and most active members. In tbe tariff debates in the last Con- 
gress he showi'd bimself to bi^ singularly well informed in tln^ details of tbe 
(|nestion at issue, and bis reafiy grasp of great public interests won him un- 
disputed rank among the leaders on the Republican side. Cut off in his prime 
by the unsparing reaper, his country is ib'piived of one whose future jiiom- 
ised to 1)6 of great usefulness. 



72 /'//v? jxD riuuACTEn of dvdley c. h.iskell. 

He was appreciated, honorcil, and loved by the good people of 
Lawrenee and his adopted State, who knew him well and best, and 
among whom he had spent, his boyhood and maturer years. 

It was my privilege to attend his remains to tlieir last resting 
place in the beautiful cemetery near his home, and to witness the 
evidences of admiration, honor, and love cherished for him by his 
neighbors and the people of his State. They were earnest and sin- 
cere, and manifested with genuine sympathy and tenderness by all 
classes — fittiuff tributes to tlie noble dead. 



Address of Mr. MORRli_L, of Vermont. 

Mr. Prksipent: Tlie tender and truthful triliutes whicii have 
been already paid to the deceased leave little more fi)r me to add. 

Mr. Haskei.l was born in Vermont; and this fact, perhaps, 
has brought to me the honor of an invitation to add a leaf hereto 
the brief ceremonies of the hour in coninicmoration of our deceased 
friend who was last year among us, witii all the robu.st and elastic 
vigor of health and ripe manhood, fitly representing a notable dis- 
trict of a great and prosperous State. He then stood as the equal 
of the foremost for his practical knowledge and unHagging industry 
in the di.scussion and arbitrament of the leading question of the 
day. Unfortunately, as it appears to us, his career has been sud- 
denly closed — too suddenly for his family, or for his friends and 
country. No one familiar with tlie voluminous record of the recent 
tariff debate, with the ever inhering difficulties and complicated 
problems of the subject, will hesitate to admit, whether agreeing 
to the principles he promulgated or not, that it has fallen to the 
lot of few men to approach more nearly at one session of Congress 
to the general mastery of the subject than was done by this labori- 
ous Representative from Kansas. Not that he appeared in long 
and eloquent orations and then retired from the field, but that he 
was at all times ready with the lucid explanations and apt speech 
of a well-equipped and strong man. His stalwart frame seemed 
to exemjit iiim from liraiu-weariness. Strong as he appeared, it is 



ADDHESS OF MR. MOnnil.L, OF VERMONT. 73 

now evi<k"iit tliat liis exee.^sive lain us were ]mr.suo(l at the ])eril of 
his health, and yet piirsiieil with tuuliiuinished diligence and nn- 
diminished eonrage. He knew how to die, lint not how to sur- 
render. 

Young Haskell's removal I'rom the fine old and peaeefnl town 
of Springfield, in Vermont, to Kansas, in the days of his boyhood, 
but wiien old and strong enough to shoulder a rifle in behalf of 
the free-State cause, brought him into a new arena of a more stir- 
ring and eventful life, which was well calculated to fire'his heart 
and make him forever thoroughly earnest in the avowal and de- 
fense of his opinions. He was there to see the birth of a State 
and there to follow the flag of the Union in 1861. 

His subsequent training at scientific schools and his later mer- 
cantile experience, if not leading him to the acquisition of personal 
wealth, lead him to study deeply the most eflPctive systematic 
methods by which the happiness and prosperity of great agricultu- 
ral communities could lie built up and solidly sustained. He had 
no faith in anything short of a home market and the harmony of 
diversified industries. There was nothing excellently done by 
labor elsewhere that he was not ambitious to have better done in 
A inerica. He was justly proml of his adopted State, of its marvel- 
ous wealth-producing jirairies, and full of faith in its liberty-lov- 
ing peo])le and in their rapidly growing numbers; but he would 
also have Kansas as much esteemed for all the virtues of a Chris- 
tian State as for the fertility of its soil or the thrift of its people. 
As a leader at home he aimed, both by example and precept, to 
elevate the intelligence and purity ot ciiiiractcr as well as tlie ma- 
terial prosperity of his State ; and here his life showed that he did 
not lose sight as a national legislator of the same ideal statesman- 
ship. His political duties and religious faith were equally liinding 
upon his conscience and never lacked harmonious relations. 

In the conniiittee of conference upon the tariff bill, during the 
closing days of the last Congress, an opportunity was afforded to 
me to notice some of the prominent traits in the character of Mr. 
Haskei.I,. He was true to his convictions, and lacked neither in- 
formation nor couratre to enforce them. He was (lutsiiokcn in his 



74 LIFE AND CffAKACTER OF DUDLEY C. HASKELL. 

0))iiii()ns, hut not doo-matio, and wlion overhonic hv tlio majority, 
wliicli rarely lia])|»onc(l, graccriilly yirldcd. lie sccnicd to rocoii'- 
nize every interest oftiie conntry, iiowever widely separated, as en- 
titled to be heard with the most respectful consideration, and was 
not only ready but eager to offer c<iual justice to all. A patient 
listener to others, not soon tired by a review of the most unattract- 
ive details, his conclnsions, always commanding respect, appeared 
to be based u]ion an unselfish adherence to the principles he re- 
garded essential to the ])ernian<'iit advancement and greatest good 
of the whole conntry. 

I bear willing testimony to his distinguished services; services 
which entitle his name to a lox'ing remembrance not only by the 
citizens of Kansas and of his native State but by the nation. Ilis 
place in the Congress of the United St;itcs, it is to be feared, will 
not soon be supplied, and his decease nnist i)e lamented not (juIv bv 
his friends as a jtei'sonal bereavement, but i)v all those who wvw 
acquainted with his merits it u\\\A also be lamented as a national 
loss. Had he lived longei' his i-epiitation might have mounted 
higher. As it is, history, which remedilessly ignores the multi- 
tude of maidvind, will not suffe}- his name to be forgotten. Henct!- 
forth the distinction he so lairly e;nned w ill remain secni'e in the 
annals of his eonntrv. 



Address of Mr. Plumb, of Kansas. 

Mr. Trksidknt: Respect for tlu' dead is a ]ier\ailing instinct of 
our common humanity. To honor the memory of the dcjiarted is re- 
garded as a .sacred tru.st, to the faithful discharge of which affection 
and friendship are irrevocably committed. \oi- is any good man's 
tame and memory left to the sole guardianship of those who knew 
and loved him in life. There is something in the silent helpless- 
ness of the coffin and the .sepulcher that a])pe.ils with peculiar and 
pathetic force to the <hi\alry of human nature. 'I'he di.scord of 
party passion, the eontliet of individual interests, the fierce rivalry 
of pi'rsonal ambitions, and all that is base and nnworlln- in the 



ADDRESS OF .V/f. ril'MB, OF KANSAS. 7o 

eager strinj;glc for precedence and supremacy retire in .silence I'rom 
tliat presence whose mastery over the conihined forces of natiiri' is 
attested hy the unniinibered dead of all tiie ages. 

If these proceedings to-day were but a meaningless cerenionv, if 
the public business had been suspended that we might take part in 
a mere empty pageant, we should do but scant honor to the mem- 
ory of him whose early and lamented death is the theme of tlie oc- 
casion. ]>rouglit face to face to the sum and end of human hopes, 
so far as they center in this life, who shall say that the contempla- 
tion of that result may not guide us to loftier heights of purpose 
and eifort,and by inspii-ing us witli fresh zeal and devotion make 
us fitter for the time when we, too, sliall be the text of funeral dis- 
course '! 

The great State wliich liunors inc with a seat in this Cliamlier 
is ill iiKiiiiMiiiig. ( )nc of tiic ablest and most distinguished of her 
suns lias fallen : for \\v was peculiarly a son of the State. His 
early youth was -pent aiiimig the shifting and exciting incidcnt.s 
other "uiuasy civilization," and he broadened into manhood just 
as she was laying aside the in.signia of territorial vassalage toi- the 
nobler emblems of sovereignty. Thus with almost ever\- stej) ol' 
her ]>rogress he had personal i<li'ntilicatiun, and thus as the vears 
advanced and the early honors conferred upon him were more than 
justified, the boundaries of his iuHuence were enlarged and people 
who had never looked ujxin his face watched his career with [)ride 
from the remotest corners of the commonwealth. 

Others have tohl in fitting terms the life-stoiy of mv dea<l col- 
league and friend, and I need not retrace that ground. 

It i.s a well-known fact in philosophv and experience that the 
characters of men and races are infiucuced and molded by their 
surroundings in the natural world. Strong natures, phvsical, in- 
tellectual, and mural, are nurtured under wintry skies and upon 
rugged soil. .Mr. H.iSKKl.l, carried with him to what was then 
the "fiu' west " the vigor and industry, the native shrewdness, anil 
the tori-e ot' charaeter to give it scope and purpose, which he had 
imbibed with the air ot' his native hills. Of the tra<liti(iiis, pin-- 
po.ses and |irin<i]ples of New Elngland he was at once the product 



7fi LIFE AND CHARACTICn OF DUDLEY C. HASKELL. 

and exempliir ; and the little city wliicli honored him in life und 
whic^h now so keonly mourns his death hears a proud New Eng- 
land name, and lioasts no small measure of those sterling qualities 
that have made New England homes and New lilngland enterprise 
a theme of envy and a pattern for imitation. 

Much has been said — too much cannot be said — of the intelleet- 
ual side of Mr. Haskklt/s nature and of the honor that he had 
jiroved himself worthy to wear and which he seemed destined 
speedily to win in the field of politics and statesmanship. But 
there are those among his old neighbors and scattered all over the 
State which he honored who will prefer to remember him as the 
faithful friend and vigilant ally of every useful, every noble woi-k. 
To the temperance cause he gave an example of life-long abstemi- 
ousness and ever-ready advocacy. In the Sabbat Ii-sqIiooI he was 
a patient, zealous, untiring worker. He honored religion by a 
blameless life, and strengthened the church of his choice by the 
earnestnesss of his labors and the elevating influence of his char- 
acter. In social life he was fit to be a leader, and, as the head of 
that sadly stricken I'ainily, he was worthy of all the measureless 
love that centered thei'c 

Mr. Haskell was an ambitions man, but his was the ambition 
to excel, and thus to build u])on the solid fmndation of his own 
merits. He had none of the arts of the demagogue, and to the 
trickeries and littlenesses of politics he was an aiisolnte stranger. 
He appealed for support on gi-ounds of principle and the highest 
party expediency, and in Ins jjopular addresses eschewed charla- 
tanism and personalities. He fortified himself for his public 
efforts by study and labor, and was thereby enabled to illumine 
them with a wealth of illustration and a profusion of analogies. 

He gave to whatever he undertook the enthusiasm of his nature 
— not that tidal enthusiasm as conspiciious in its ebb as in its flow, 
but that steady, ardent, genial ibrce before which obstacles that 
might withstand the fury of a spasmodic assault gradually but 
surely disappear. 

Strong in his ]>urposes, nnyieldiug in his convictions, insensible 
to fear, vigorous in assaidt, and skillful in defense, Mr. Haskell 
combined the chivalry of the kuight with the tenderness of a wo- 



JDDHJiSS OF MI!. r/.r.MI!, OFKAXSJS. 77 

iiKiii. HotMiiitrilnited t(i |);irtisaiisiiiii no malignity, Init wa.s toler- 
ant of (liffc'iTnees and was a ,-inwro admirer of able and conspic- 
uons politieal opponent.s. 

Mr. Haskell's power of concentration was something remark- 
able. If other.* excelled him in range and variety of informa- 
tion, he was the eqnal of any in the capacity to snmmon all his 
facnlties to the attack or defense of a single position. He was 
therefore able to give to any nndertaking iu wliich he engaged all 
the energies of his natui-e. " Tliorough " was iiis motto, and when 
he espoused a cause he studied it minutely, with a view to deter- 
mine how it might be the most signally promoted and the most 
successfully defended. 

This devotion to the matter in hand, whether great or small, was 
a striking characteristic of his whole life. His wholesome, hearty 
nature delighted in manly sports, and during his college life and 
subsequently the amiable ardor of his temperament was uot less 
conspicuous in the athletic and chivalrous pastimes of the day 
than in the more serious coucerus of life. 

No man less obnoxious to the suspicion of being influenced by 
improper considerations ever lived. A prominent figure in nu- 
merous heated jjolitical controversies, and a champion whose blows 
were as harmful to opponents as they were helpful to allies, no 
whisper of personal reproat'h was ever breathed against him. In 
an atmosphere of political perturbation and unrest he was serene 
and guileless, advancing toward the end in view in the sunlight 
and bv processes seen and known of all men. To what he con- 
ceived to be vicious notions of finance and economic administra- 
tion he gave no countenance, but fearlessly and sturdily main- 
tained his own convictions at every hazard of personal popularity. 
His courtesy was as sincere and cordial as it was plain and art- 
less. He cultivated no grace at the expense of his sincerity, nor 
simulated a pleasure that he did not feel. He had no special def- 
erence for rank or wealth or station, but was as kindly to the 
lowly who implored his aid as to the proud who sought his coun- 
sel. The kindliness of his soul l)eained through mild blue eyes, 
and was traced in lines of tenderness upon his expressive counte- 
nance. 



78 /'//'A' AND (■IIAI:A( TEI! OF HVIH.EY t\ HASKEI.L. 

Mr. Haskell was ciii[)liati("ill_v a j^rdwiiis^- \\\m\. 'J'Iic (iccasiou 
would not justify invidious comparisons, nor is uxtravai;ant culoLtv 
tlie office of true friendship ; but I venture tlie opinion tliat no 
man of his age in public life gave fairer promise of eminent use- 
fulness, or could more justly look forward to the recognition and 
I'lward to which genuine merit is ever entitled to asj)ire. 

Fill' tlie first time in the history of Kansas death has invadid 
tlic cii'rle of licr representation present at the capital of l!ie nation. 
'I'lic lilow wliirh came with unexpected suddenness to anxious 
friends Jicre i'ell with stunning force upon tens of thousands of 
hearts in distant homes. The aspiring mind and noble soul of mv 
colleague were domiciled in a physical organization that seemed 
especially designed to give them fitting shelter. ITe was regarded 
as a strong man in every sense, and his friends and admirers were 
justified in anticipating for him length of days as well as fullness 
of honors. What commentary on the mutability (jf human affairs 
and the perishable nature of Iiuman hopes could be more sadly 
impressive! 

No matter what may be the nature of the consolations left to 
the survivors, an ended life, wiiether it be that of the intimt or tlic 
patriarch, is ever a matter of serious contemplation. It is pecu- 
liarly and sadly so wdien in that life centered brilliant Iiojk's and 
extensive j)ossibilities. To his latest hours of consciousness my 
dead colleague looked out upon the world as upon a field in which 
adecpiate rewards are reserved for conscientious labor. He was 
confident in his own capacity, and meditated large plans of useful- 
ness. 

And so Dudley Chase Hasicell came U) tiie close of his too 
brief career at a time grievously premature to his country and to 
his friends, but under cireumsttinces not wanting in precious (Con- 
solations. He had so lived as not to fear death. A laggard in 
the race for wealth, he had gained a richer inheritance, and dying, 
left the partner of his life aud home dowered with the fragrance 
of an exemplary life, aud his children rich in the patrimony of 
his stainless name. 

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